BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260825T0736Z-1787643402.5083-EO-786098-1@10.73.15.240 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260825T033642Z CREATED:20260824T140002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T140002Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T122000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T132000 SUMMARY: Olmstead About-Face: Implications of the U.S. Department of Justic e’s new stance on persons with disabilities’ right to community integration DESCRIPTION: In June\, the U.S. Department of Justice released an Office of Legal Counsel memo that effectively reverses the Department’s longstanding approach to defending persons with disabilities’ right to community integr ation. While the memo alone does not change settled legal precedents\, it s ignals a substantially narrower approach to the Department’s enforcement of the U.S. Supreme Court’s […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In June\, the U.S. Department of Justice r eleased an Office of Legal Counsel memo that effectively reverses the Depar tment’s longstanding approach to defending persons with disabilities' right to community integration. While the memo alone does not change settled leg al precedents\, it signals a substantially narrower approach to the Departm ent's enforcement of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1999 decision Olmstead v. L.C . ex rel. Zimring. Further\, because the memo is likely to guide all federa l agencies’ actions\, this policy reversal endangers implementation of the panoply of federal laws and programs that undergird persons with disabilit ies’ right to community living. This event’s panelists will bring to bear t heir decades of experience advocating on behalf of persons with disabilitie s for their right to be included in their communities to describe the pract ical implications of the Department’s Olmstead about-face\, as well as what the disability community can do to counter rising threats to integration\, inclusion\, and belonging.

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