Who Is the Lady Trying to Upend Disability Law?

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This case has everything: bad faith, gross misjudgment, and Supreme Court shenanigans.

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0:00.0	Two, three, four.
0:05.9	Two, three, four.
0:09.2	Two, three, four.
0:12.1	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:13.9	Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyred, a Rewire News Group podcast hosted by the
0:18.8	legal journalism team that realizes and understands that
0:22.9	disability rights is a reproductive justice issue. I'm ReWire News Group's editor at large,
0:29.0	Imani Gandy. And I'm Jess Peeklo, ReWire News Group's executive editor. Rewire News Group is the one
0:34.8	and only home for expert reprojournalism that inspires you to give the bird to eugenicists.
0:41.1	And the boom-leared podcast is a part of that mission.
0:43.7	So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.
0:47.7	So this episode, we are talking about oral arguments in a case that could upend disability rights and education and potentially
0:56.2	wreck disability discrimination law as we know it. The case is called AJT versus Osseo area schools,
1:03.6	and I'm putting it mildly here when I say that things got really spicy during arguments.
1:10.5	These oral arguments turned into a downright hoot-nanny, right?
1:15.2	Yeah, I said hoot-nanny.
1:17.3	Thanks to the antics of legendary and irascible Supreme Court advocate Lisa Blatt.
1:25.3	Hoot-nanny? Arrascible!
1:31.0	Blame it on my word of the day toilet paper.
1:38.9	I'm sorry. You have a word of the day toilet paper? Okay, no, I don't really. But I just really like thesoruses, okay? I like words. This case was supposed to be a narrow education rights case.
1:46.7	You know, just your standard.
1:48.7	Do students with disabilities have to meet an impossibly high bar to sue their schools under the ADA?
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