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An employee of a rural Kansas school district repeatedly shoved a teenager with Down syndrome into a utility closet, hit the boy and once photographed him locked in a cage used to store athletic ...
The parents refused the surgery because of the child's Down syndrome. Hospital officials had a guardian appointed by the Indiana Juvenile Court to determine whether the surgery should be done. The court ruled in favor of the parents (and thus against the surgery), and the Indiana Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The baby died later in 1982.
1982 – A baby known as "Infant Doe" was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with Down syndrome and a birth defect, a tracheoesiphageal fistula, which prevented the oral ingestion of food and water, and would have required surgery. The parents refused the surgery with the advice of their physician, Dr. Walter L. Owens, as it was felt that even with ...
The clip details the institutional discrimination that people with Down syndrome face throughout their lives. “Things about having Down syndrome that don’t make sense,” Woodward says at the ...
Harvard (2023), the Supreme Court case striking down race-based affirmative action in higher education. A reversal of the court of appeals in Ames could make it easier for reverse-discrimination claims to succeed—at least in the five circuits that had adopted a "background circumstances" test. [6]
The clip details the institutional discrimination that people with Down syndrome face throughout their lives. Woman with Down syndrome calls out discrimination in powerful TikTok video: 'People ...
The antecedents of the case were posed when Lilly Ledbetter, a production supervisor at a Goodyear tire plant in Alabama, filed an equal-pay lawsuit regarding pay discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, six months before her early retirement in 1998.
The attorney, Alfred Rava, claimed in the lawsuit that he was the victim of sex discrimination by the A’s because he did not receive a free plaid reversible bucket hat during a promotion at an A ...