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	<description>Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Managing its Risks</description>
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		<title>Class is in session: Does the Defendant Have a Right to Know Who Is Enrolled</title>
		<link>http://www.williamgoren.com/blog/2012/05/19/class-is-in-session-does-the-defendant-have-a-right-to-know-who-is-enrolled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 15:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Goren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before anyone can file a suit alleging a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, they first have to exhaust administrative remedies. That means they have to file a claim with the EEOC first. In some cases, a plaintiff files a claim with the state discrimination authority and that claim gets cross filed with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help wanted: ASL practitioners</title>
		<link>http://www.williamgoren.com/blog/2012/05/12/help-wanted-asl-practitioners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 20:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Goren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Title II]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deaf]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.williamgoren.com/blog/?p=188</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A fascinating case, Belton v. Georgia, 2012 WL 1080304 (N.D. Ga. March 30, 2012), recently came down from the northern district of Georgia. In this case, two people who were both deaf and suffered from mental illness sued the state of Georgia because the state of Georgia simply was not set up to accommodate persons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ADA, The rehabilitation act, and the ministerial exception</title>
		<link>http://www.williamgoren.com/blog/2012/04/26/the-ada-the-rehabilitation-act-and-the-ministerial-exception/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Goren</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[29 U.S.C. 794]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.williamgoren.com/blog/?p=181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog entry asks the question as to what is the status of the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act with respect to employees that work for religious institutions. Recently, the United States Supreme Court decided the case of Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC, 132 S. Ct. 694 (2012). In that case, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NFL CBA and the ADA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Goren</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[PGA Tour v. Martin]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.williamgoren.com/blog/?p=176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Persons with disabilities and the National Football League have been in the news of late. In particular, the Chicago Bears acquired a person with a mental disability and then there was the person in the draft that scored very poorly on the Wunderlic test. I thought it would be interesting to go through the collective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comply with the ADA, commit a felony, be sued for actual and punitive damages… Really?</title>
		<link>http://www.williamgoren.com/blog/2012/04/05/comply-with-the-ada-commit-a-felony-be-sued-for-actual-and-punitive-damages-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Goren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Final Federal Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[actual damages]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[class]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Illinois eavesdropping statute]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[reasonable accommodations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recording]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is crystal clear that under the ADA that a student in the classroom as a reasonable accommodation would have the right to tape record or otherwise record the class. See 28 C.F.R. § 35.104(2),(3). However, you may want to look at your state&#8217;s eavesdropping statute to see if there aren&#8217;t some unintended consequences of [...]]]></description>
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