Legal Advocacy
Amicus Briefs
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Chevron v. Echazabal (2002)
DREDF co-authored a brief on behalf of national disability rights groups in Echazabal, arguing that Congress clearly intended to eradicate paternalistic exclusions of people with disabilities, and employers thus should not be able to deny employment based on workplace threats to the health or safety of an individual worker himself. The Echazabal decision held that an employer need not hire a worker who poses a direct threat to his own safety, but also imposed requirements on the decision-making process to be followed when seeking to exclude a worker.
