Timely disability accommodations
Harwood v. Superior Court of California
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Megan Harwood has asked the Supreme Court to review her allegation that the Los Angeles County Superior Court notified her too late about its disability-accommodation decision for her to use granted accommodations during a contested proceeding.
- What's at stake
- Harwood says delayed notice kept her from meaningfully participating with granted accommodations; whether federal law or the Constitution required timely notice remains undecided.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Her petition asks whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fourteenth Amendment require timely notice.
The petition names the Los Angeles County Superior Court and Justin Gurnari, another party in the state-court case.
Question presented
Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fourteenth Amendment require a state court to communicate a disability-accommodation determination in time for granted accommodations to be meaningfully used during contested adjudication, when delayed notice allegedly prevents the litigant’s meaningful participation.
What happens next
The Supreme Court must decide whether to hear the case. No oral argument or decision date is set while review remains ungranted.
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