Judge John Sedwick has held that the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act of 1986 preempts the “peer review” privilege created by AS 18.23.030.
The Disability Law Center of Alaska sought a preliminary injunction forcing the North Star Behavior Health System to turn over records about the treatment of a North Star patient, after receiving a […]
Judge Beistline distinguishes among kinds of injunctions
After the Disability Law Center received six reports that Special Education students in a classroom had been mistreated, it asked the Anchorage School District to release the names of the students’ parents/guardians. When the District refused, citing various statutory bases for confidentiality, the Center filed suit, and requested that information […]
Judge Burgess: the Employee’s Intangible Losses are not Irreparable
Barbara Flory works at Wal-Mart in Anchorage as a greeter. Because of pain, she requested accommodations, but Wal-Mart denied them. She then filed disability discrimination charges against Wal-Mart, and shortly thereafter a Complaint in federal court.
Flory filed her charges with the Anchorage Equal Rights Commission and the EEOC. Neither agency has […]
