At Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, 19-year-old freshman Sarah Sevick has filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department saying her rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act were violated by the dorm’s ban on her pet ferret, which she says she needs at hand to calm her during panic attacks related to a physical disability. (“Disabilities complaint filed after ferret banned from dorm”, AP/Houston Chronicle, Oct. 14). For more on claims to accommodation of companion animals under disabled-rights law, see May 5, etc.
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On Ferreting Out Dumb Laws
There’s an old line that goes: “If dropped toast always lands butter-side down, and a dropped cat always lands on its feet, then what happens if you drop a cat with butter on its back?”
Here’s my version: If
Mind yon futret
Overlawyered reports on the case of the ferret and the Americans with Disabilities Act. In a clear example of two nations divided by a common language, as all Pedants-General know ferrets are futrets, viz: – In this monologue from 1982,
ADA: “Do as I say, not as I sue”
From: Overlawyered: Student: dorm’s ferret ban violates ADA
At Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, 19-year-old freshman Sarah Sevick has filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department saying her rights under the Americans with D…
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