AELE LAW LIBRARY OF CASE SUMMARIES:
Corrections Law for Jails, Prisons and
Detention Facilities
Disability Discrimination: Visitors
Monthly Law Journal
Article: Legal
Issues Pertaining to Visitation -- Part One, 2008 (5) AELE Mo.
L.J. 301.
Monthly
Law Journal Article: Legal
Issues Pertaining to Visitation -- Part Two, 2008 (6) AELE Mo.
L.J. 301.
Monthly Law Journal Article: Accommodation
of Wheelchair-Bound Prisoners, 2009 (10)
AELE Mo. L. J. 301.
A wheelchair-bound
woman suffering from multiple sclerosis contended that she was denied a
reasonable accommodation for her disability in connection with her request
to visit her incarcerated husband. Her disability allegedly prevented her
from visiting him because she cannot travel long distances, and he is imprisoned
300 miles away from her home. Reversing the dismissal of her lawsuit, a
federal appeals court held that the plaintiff had standing to assert a
disability discrimination claim, and that the trial court improperly failed
to address whether she had sufficiently alleged that the visitation program
was administered in a discriminatory manner, which it should do on remand.
Fulton v. Goord, #06-5023, 2009 U.S. App. Lexis 28064 (2nd Cir.).