Tasty Tuesday!

Hi Members!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend! I just wanted to invite you all to participate in our bake sale tomorrow, Tues April 19th. If you are available to table or can bring a yummy treat please email me and let me know! The money will help sponsor our next event. I also wanted to thank everyone who was able to come to the first meeting. It was a great showing and got me really excited about everything I think that we will be able to accomplish together. I also emailed an invitation to join the USF Law Students with Disabilities Association google group so please join to make sure you get all of the emails and information regarding events. I hope to see you all tomorrow at the bake sale!

Cheers,

Katie

Hi Members!

I just wanted to remind you all about our first official meeting today at 5 in room 100. We will be providing burritos! I also have some exciting news! We have been added to the ABA's Law School Disability Directory. Scroll down to University of San Francisco School of Law and you'll see us. Check it out: http://new.abanet.org/disability/Pages/lawschool.aspx?state=CA Pretty awesome. I hope to see you all tonight!

- Katie Robert

Greetings Students,
I hope you all had a good weekend. I would like to invite you
all the the first Student's with Disabilities Association Meeting
tomorrow, tues 3/31, at 5pm-620pm in kn 100. We will be providing
burritos from Papalote! Members and non members are invited to
attend. I hope to see you there!

- Katie

Dear Students with Disabilities Association Members,

Welcome to our new group! Thank you all so much for joining. I would like to invite you all to an awesome opportunity to attend a consultation on the United States' human rights record as part of the government's preparation of a national report for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council. Please look below for more information. There will be a session on disability rights and I thought it would be great if members from our group wanted to attend together. Please email me if you are interested and we can set up a place to meet before.

I hope you can attend and I look forward to working with you. Please email me if you have any questions, suggestions, concerns etc and I will keep you posted regarding our first official meeting.

Cheers,

Katie Robert
Students with Disabilities Association President
Section 3 1L representative
Katierobert4@gmail.com

Please consider attending this amazing opportunity:
On Friday, March 26, 2010 from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, the University of
San Francisco will host a consultation on the United States' human
rights record as part of the government's preparation of a national
report for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights
Council .

This is a once-in-every 4 years review and the U.S. is only hosting
these consultations in four U.S. cities. Not only are we lucky enough
to have San Francisco be a host-city for the UPR, but our own
University of San Francisco is providing the meeting forum.

Representatives of the U.S. Department of State and other
federal agencies will hear from a broad range of NGOs and stakeholders
about US human rights issues.

Students are invited to attend for free!

For more information and to register for this event, go to
http://uprconsultationsf.eventbrite.com/

First event Friday March 19th

Dear USF students,

I would like to invite you to join the Students with Disabilities Association. SDA is an association of students with and without disabilities. We are enthusiastic about starting this new group and want you to be a part of it. We are committed to spreading awareness regarding disabilities rights and providing support for students with disabilities. We will be tabling today from 12-1. Please stop by and sign up for our group, mailing list and event. If you are unable to stop by the tables today, check out our website for more information: http://usfsdsrep.blogspot.com/

We are also co-sponsoring our first event with Law in Motion Program PILF, and SBA this Friday (March 19^th). We will be volunteering at the SF Food Bank Sorting and would like to recruit a group of 15-20 volunteers to sort and pack food that will be distributed to local agencies in need. The SF Food Bank is the largest distributor of food to non-profit agencies in San Francisco, from homeless shelters to AIDS service providers and battered women’s shelters. This is also another opportunity to get PILF HOURS! Please RSVP to Malou in the Dean's Office. Here are the details:

Time: 9:00 am -12 noon

Location: 900 Pennsylvania Ave. (Potrero Hill)

RSVP To: Malou Romero, Deans’ Office, 415-422-4496 or lawinmotion@usfca.edu

Please feel free to contact us.

Elected Officials:

President Katie Robert Katierobert4@gmail.com

Vice President Will Brett wbrett1983@gmail.com

Website:

http://usfsdsrep.blogspot.com/

I hope to see you all there!

- Katie

Now Accepting: Name Suggestions for the future USF Law Student Disabilities Group

Hi Everyone!

My name is Will Brett and I'm the Student Disabilities Services Representative to the SBA at USF Law. A number of classmates have expressed the desire to start a student group for everyone interested in disabilities-related issues in the law and at school and, to that end, we need your help! The student group as such won't exist until the next academic year, and it might not even happen if not enough people are interested. So I hope everyone will stay tuned, post, comment, and even come to our [unofficial] events and meetings (read: free food). MOST IMPORTANT of all: we need a name! If you've got a good idea for a name, please add them to this post or email your suggestions to usfsdslawrep@gmail.com

Ex: Law Students for Disabilities Awareness

Ex: Disabilities as Capabilities Student Group

Ex: [Your Suggestion Here]

Thanks!

Fascinating Article!

Federal Court Rules in Favor of Blind Law School Grad
http://www.jdjournal.com/2010/02/01/federal-court-rules-in-favor-of-blind-law-school-grad/

Mon, Feb 1, 2010

On Friday U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of San Francisco ordered the National Conference of Law Examiners to accommodate Stephanie Enyart, a legally blind law school graduate attempting to take the California Bar exam. Enyart filed a suit against the NCBE after they refused to allow her to use special software during the two multiple choice sections of the exam, which is controlled by the organization in several states. Instead the NCBE offered alternative accommodations which Enyart did not believe were adequate.

The NCBE argued that federal disability law doesn’t require testing organization to provide disabled examinees with their preferred accommodations. The NCBE also argued that putting test questions on a computer disk would expose them to “hackers and thieves” The examiners wanted Enyart to accept the usual accommodations consisting of a pencil and paper test with questions displayed on an enlarged screen, a human reader and twice the normal testing period.

Enyart said that she needed her software specifically to have a fair opportunity to pass the exam. Breyer agreed and said the organization could provide its own computer to deal with security concerns. Enyart is a 32 year old graduate of UCLA School of Law and a law clerk at Disability Rights Advocates in Berkeley. She will take the exam beginning February 23. The NCBE could ask the federal appeals court to block Breyer’s order.