Legal Opinion
Williams v. City of New York
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 5, 2015No. 12-CV-6805 (VEC)PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION & ORDER
VALERIE CAPRONI, District Judge.
This case arises from the arrest and overnight detention of a deaf woman by the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”). New York City takes' the extraordinary position that, even though the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) has been the law of the land for twenty-five years, it has no obligation to provide any accommodation to the hearing-impaired at the time of an arrest, even if doing so could easily be accomplished without endangering the officers or the public safety and without interfering in the lawful execution of the officers’…
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