Legal Opinion
Fulton v. Goord
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 22, 2009No. 06-5023-cvPublishedCited by 230 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:
Eunice Fulton suffers from multiple sclerosis. Her illness prevented her from visiting her husband in an upstate New York prison, roughly 300 miles from her New York City home, as part of a state-run Inmate Visitor Program (IVP). Proceeding pro se, Fulton sued officials of the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS), pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12132, and the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794(a), seeking relief for the defendants’ asserted failure to accommodate her disability in administering the…
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