Tue Oct 13 · 12:20pm
Olmstead About-Face: Implications of the U.S. Department of Justice’s new stance on persons with disabilities’ right to community integration
In June a Justice Department legal memo effectively reversed the department's approach to defending disabled people's right to community integration under Olmstead v. L.C. (1999). Michael Ashley Stein of Harvard Law's Project on Disability, Steven J. Schwartz of the Center for Public Representation, Dianna Hu of the Boston Center for Independent Living and Alex Green of the Kennedy School discuss its practical effects and how the disability community can respond.