[Press Release from the law firm involved:] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 16, 2021 Chicago, Illinois ROBBINS, SALOMON & PATT, LTD. SEEKS JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL HICKSON, FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST GUARDIANSHIP PROGRAM Robbins, Salomon & Patt, Ltd. (RSP) on March 10, 2021, filed a lawsuit against Family Eldercare, Inc., a Texas guardianship program and two of its […]
NDY Urges USCIS To Reverse Policies That Kill Ill and Disabled Immigrant Children Last month, U.S. officials took another step against immigrant people by ending adjudication of “deferred action” requests. These requests temporarily prevent the deportation of vulnerable individuals and families who face compelling, and often life-threatening, circumstances. Many applicants for deferred action are children […]
NDY insta a USCIS a revertir las políticas que matan a niños inmigrantes enfermos y con discapacidad El mes pasado, los funcionarios estadounidenses dieron otro paso contra las personas inmigrantes al finalizar la adjudicación de las solicitudes de “acción diferida”. Estas solicitudes evitan temporalmente la deportación de individuos y familias vulnerables que enfrentan circunstancias convincentes, […]
The Administration for Community Living (part of the Administration on Aging within the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services) is seeking comments on draft voluntary consensus guidelines for Adult Protective Services. The original deadline for comments was October 30, but it’s been extended to November 13. More information and a portal for submitting online comments […]
As folks who read this blog already know, the Institute of Medicine’s Transforming End-of-Life Care Committee sets aside a portion of its meeting agenda to receive public comments. At the Committee’s second public meeting, held at Stanford on May 29, DREDF’s Marilyn Golden attended to provide public comments. Not Dead Yet previously submitted written input […]
This past week, the U.S. Senate voted to proceed with consideration of U.S.ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). With a two-thirds majority required to move to the next step, the cloture vote was 61 to 36, with 3 not voting. Not Dead Yet has not yet formally […]
Recently, Diane Coleman wrote about new proposals to increase the pool of donor organs, and that have particularly disturbing ramifications in terms of the care and treatment of newly disabled individuals. We already know that organ transplant teams are more than willing to obtain organs from individuals with long-term disabilities, as highlighted by the case […]
