The 9th Circuit has rejected the Rehab Act claim of a legal assistant at Oregon’s Public Defender agency, on the grounds that the agency was not a “program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance” under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794.
Because the agency doesn’t directly receive federal funds, the […]
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