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    Community college district won't take disability case to Supreme Court following protests

    by Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times Mar 03, 2022 3 minutes
    Roy Payan, middle, who is visually impaired, leads a protest of disabled students and other disabled members of the community, to try to convince the Los Angeles Community College District board to drop their efforts to go to the Supreme Court and undo the American's Disability Act, in front of the LACCD Headquarters in downtown Los Angeles on March 2, 2022.

    LOS ANGELES — Responding to intense protests from the disability community, the Los Angeles Community College District's Board of Trustees has backed down from appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court over a lawsuit filed by two blind students claiming they were denied equal access to education.

    During a closed session meeting Wednesday night, the board voted unanimously ahead of a deadline to direct its lawyers to refrain from appealing to the Supreme Court over the 2017 lawsuit and to continue instead with mediation. The suit alleged discrimination

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