The Supreme Court Has Just Invented a New Way to Harass Vulnerable People [View all]

In a landmark ruling, the six conservatives ruled to limit people’s ability to recover damages after they’ve faced discrimination—thus making it easier to discriminate.

By Elie Mystal APRIL 29, 2022



One of the qualities I loathe most about the conservative justices on the Supreme Court is their indefatigable creativity. These people, the six of them who control the court and thus the very definition of human rights in this country, seem never to tire of inventing new ways to harass marginalized communities and diminish the chance that vulnerable people will receive fairness and justice in this world.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court engaged in another of these rounds of creative cruelty. This time, the conservatives found a new way to limit the ability of people to recover damages after they’ve faced discrimination from service providers, thus making it easier for those providers to discriminate in the first place.

The case, called Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, involves a woman, Jane Cummings, who is deaf and legally blind and communicates through American Sign Language. Cummings went to Premier Rehab in Texas for physical therapy, where she requested that an ASL interpreter be made available for her appointments. But Premier Rehab refused, instead insisting she could communicate with written notes and gestures or lip-reading. Cummings found a different physical therapist, but sued Premier Rehab for a violation of the antidiscrimination rules in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Affordable Care Act.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-cummings/

Reminds of this right wing court when it came to class action lawsuit's........

Yep they ruled that you can't bring a class action......