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.

Press Release

24 Hour Fitness Welcomes Patrons with Disabilities

  • 24 Hour Fitness
  • Accessibility
  • Civil Rights
  • Disability Discrimination
  • Disability Rights
  • Equal Rights
  • Legal Advocacy

Press Release

Blind Beneficiaries Sue Social Security Administration

  • Accessibility
  • Assistive Technology
  • Civil Rights
  • Disability Discrimination
  • Disability Rights
  • Electronic Access
  • Equal Rights
  • Legal Advocacy
  • Social Security Administration
  • SSA

Case, General

American Council of the Blind

  • Accessibility
  • Civil Rights
  • Disability Discrimination
  • Social Security
  • SSA

General, Press Release

Children With Diabetes Sue School Districts, State for Assistance

  • Civil Rights
  • Diabetes
  • Disability Discrimination
  • IDEA
  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
  • Legal Advocacy
  • Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act
  • The Americans with Disabilities Act

Press Release

Laguna Honda Hospital Lawsuit Settles

  • Civil Rights
  • Disability Discrimination
  • Disability Rights
  • Equal Rights
  • Human Rights
  • ILRCSF
  • Independent Living
  • Independent Living Resource Center
  • Judge Saundra B. Armstrong
  • Laguna Honda
  • Legal Advocacy
  • Olmstead
  • Olmstead v. L.C.

Case

Zepeda and Zepeda v. County of San Mateo (California)

  • American Council of the Blind
  • Civil Rights
  • Disability Rights
  • Equal Rights
  • Human Rights

Case, General

Tennessee v. Lane

  • Accessibility
  • Civil Rights
  • Disability Rights
  • Equal Rights
  • Human Rights
  • The Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Title II of the ADA

Press Release

Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2003

  • Civil Rights
  • IDEA
  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
  • Legal Advocacy

General, Press Release

California Supreme Court Decides Disability Rights Case

  • California Supreme Court
  • Civil Rights
  • Colmenares
  • Colmenares v. Braemar Country Club
  • Disability Discrimination
  • Disability Rights
  • Equal Rights
  • FEHA
  • Francisco Colmenares
  • Housing
  • Legal Advocacy
  • The Americans with Disabilities Act

Case, General

Colmenares v. Braemar Country Club

  • Civil Rights
  • Colmenares
  • Disability Discrimination
  • Human Rights
  • The Americans with Disabilities Act