Fox & Robertson uses the tools of the legal system to promote civil rights and especially the rights of disabled people.
We are currently working on a number of cases on behalf of incarcerated people with disabilities, including litigation on behalf of the National Federation of the Blind of Colorado and blind incarcerated people against the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) and litigation on behalf of Deaf people against the CDOC and the Tennessee Department of Correction. We continue to work with the ACLU National Prison Project and the ACLU of Montana to monitor the Langford settlement on behalf of disabled people incarcerated in the Montana State Prison.
F&R also works to ensure that the built environment is accessible to disabled people. We are currently in litigation against the city of Baltimore to ensure access to its aging, broken, or nonexistent curb ramps and recently reached an agreement with the city of Boston on the same subject. We are working with the City and County of Denver to improve the availability of on street parking in Denver in light of its decision to move parking away from the curb to accommodate bicycles and to block curb areas with fences and rocks to discourage camping.
Tim serves as the court-appointed Monitor in the landmark fair housing settlement in Independent Living Center of Southern California v. City of Los Angeles.
Finally, we enjoy working with other lawyers and community members to draft amicus briefs. In fact, we relaunched FoxRob 2.0 by collaborating with an amazing team on an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, urging the Court not to gut the protections of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. We later co-wrote a second amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of tester standing under the ADA and have written or co-written amicus briefs to the Ninth and Tenth Circuits:
- Langer v. Kiser: further support for Title III tester standing;
- Bacote v. United States Bureau of Prisons: protecting the private right of action against government agencies under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act; and
- Guthrey v. Alta California Regional Center: protecting the intended broad reach of the definition of place of public accommodation under Title III of the ADA.