Cases that challenged the rules
When a rule shut disabled people out, Jason took it to court: an admissions test, a ballot, a wrestling mat, an airport curb. These are the cases, told through court records and original reporting.
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The LSAT drops logic games: for everyone
In 2017, Jason filed Binno v. LSAC on behalf of blind plaintiffs: the exam's analytical-reasoning section was built on drawing diagrams, something no accommodation can make possible if you cannot see. The case settled in October 2019, and beginning with the August 2024 exam, LSAC removed logic games from the LSAT: for every test-taker in the country.
A national exam changed for every applicant, sighted or not.
Source Aug 2024 LSAC · Inside Higher Ed
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A published appeals ruling for Social Security claimants
Social Security claimants argued that the administrative law judges who decided their cases had not been constitutionally appointed, and that they had not given up that objection by failing to raise it at the agency. Nyman Turkish represented four of them on appeal, with Jason on the brief. In September 2020, the Sixth Circuit agreed in a published opinion.
The court vacated the judgments and ordered new hearings before properly appointed judges.
Source Sep 2020 Sixth Circuit opinion
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Blind voters mark their own ballots
Blind Michigan voters could not cast a paper absentee ballot privately and independently. Jason represented them in federal litigation against the state: and in May 2020, following a judge's order, blind voters used accessible electronic absentee ballots for the first time. On May 19, 2020, the court entered a consent decree, with Jason as plaintiffs' counsel, committing Michigan to a remote accessible vote-by-mail system for the elections that followed.
A consent decree: accessible absentee voting for blind Michigan voters.
Source May 2020 Consent decree (E.D. Mich.) ClickOnDetroit
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A decorated veteran asks to come home
An Army veteran came back from Afghanistan with PTSD; his border post felt like the war he'd survived. He didn't ask for benefits or money: only a transfer. Jason took up his fight for, in his words to the Detroit Free Press, "the most basic of accommodations." In April 2016, the court conditionally granted a preliminary injunction and barred Homeland Security from ordering him back to Texas, marking him absent without leave or disciplining him for not reporting. The case settled in 2018.
An injunction in 2016, then a $400,000 settlement in 2018.
Source 2016–2018 E.D. Mich. order · Legal News Detroit Free Press
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A deaf wrestler gets an interpreter he can see
A deaf high-school wrestling captain was told his sign-language interpreter had to stay where he couldn't see them from the mat. After a year of failed negotiation and a federal lawsuit, the MHSAA rewrote its rule: a deaf wrestler's interpreter can now move 360 degrees around the outer circle of the mat, so long as they don't interfere with the match.
The rule changed for every deaf wrestler in Michigan.
Source Dec 2015 Michigan Public
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Detroit Metro agrees to accessibility upgrades at the curb
Disabled travelers sued Detroit Metropolitan Airport after accessible public transit was moved away from the terminal. With Jason as plaintiffs' counsel, the case resolved by settlement: the buses stayed at the new ground-transportation center, and the Airport Authority agreed to improve it: personal assistance services, a better indoor waiting area, and the removal of obstacles for disabled and older travelers.
Source 2014 Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case is different, and outcomes depend on the facts and law of each matter.
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