Our Legal Cases: Fighting for Disability Rights

DREDF uses strategic litigation to protect and advance the rights of disabled people. We take on high-impact cases that challenge discrimination, improve accessibility, and set legal precedents that benefit the broader disability community. Explore our casework to learn how we’re making an impact.

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“Expensive, frustrating, demoralizing”: Wheelchair users’ recent device purchase experiences

  • Durable Medical Equipment
  • Independent Living
  • Wheelchair users

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Equity for Whom? How Private Equity and the Punishment Bureaucracy Exploit Disabled People

  • Private Equity

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Equity for Whom? An Introduction to Private Equity’s Impacts on the Disability Community

  • Private Equity

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Mobility Device User Survey: A Brief Summary Report

  • manual wheelchair
  • Medicare
  • motorized wheelchair
  • scooter
  • Use-In-the-Home rule
  • wheelchair

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Charting Equality: Why Demographic Disability Data is Good for Everyone

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OakDays: A Case Study, Permanent Affordable Housing with Healthcare and Home- and Community-Based Services for Unhoused Disabled People

  • Alameda County
  • Cardea Health
  • COVID-19
  • Five Keys
  • HCBS
  • Housing First
  • IHSS
  • Medicaid
  • Permanent Supportive Housing

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This Data Not That Data: Big Data, Privacy, and the Impact on People with Disabilities

  • Health Disparities
  • Health Equity
  • Healthcare

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Federal Disability Agency Publishes Series of Reports on Bioethics and Disability

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The Danger of Assisted Suicide Laws

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A Primer on Assisted Suicide Laws