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

Have it Your Way at Burger King? Not if You Use a Wheelchair

  • Accessibility
  • Castaneda v. Burger King
  • Disability Discrimination
  • Equal Rights
  • Miguel Castaneda
  • Scooter Users
  • Universal Design
  • Wheelchair users

General

Burger King Corporation

  • barriers
  • Castaneda v. Burger King
  • Disability Discrimination
  • Equal Rights
  • Miguel Castaneda
  • Wheelchair users

Press Release

Judge Rules Social Security Administration Must Accommodate Blind Beneficiaries

  • Accessibility
  • Assistive Technology
  • Civil Rights
  • Electronic Access
  • Equal Rights
  • Judge William Alsup
  • Legal Advocacy
  • Reasonable Accommodations
  • Social Security Administration
  • SSA
  • Technology

General

National Council on Independent Living honors DREDF’s Marilyn Golden

  • Civil Rights
  • Disability Rights
  • Equal Rights
  • Human Rights
  • Independent Living

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

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

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