Through a review of Rocky Myers’ case in Alabama and a discussion with The Arc’s legal director, this episode explores the Supreme Court’s opinion in Atkins and later decisions holding that executing people with intellectual disability violates the constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

This document explores how advocates have used, and are beginning to use in new ways, the “integration mandate” of the Americans with Disabilities Act to advocate for the rights of individuals with disabilities to avoid unnecessary entanglement with the criminal justice system.

Federal class action lawsuit alleging widespread failures by Kanawha County Schools (West Virginia) to provide behavioral and academic supports to students with disabilities in violation of federal law.

Complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Delaware Division of Human Relations alleging that a property owners’ association violated the Fair Housing Act in refusing to sell property to The Arc Delaware.

Amicus brief field in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit arguing that the Maryland Board of Elections’ refusal to use an accessible online ballot marking tool in the absentee voting process violated Title II of the ADA.