Under the ADA, State and local governments, businesses, and nonprofit organizations that serve the public generally must allow service animals to accompany people with disabilities in all areas of the facility where the public is normally allowed to go. For example, a New York hospital could notexclude a service animal frompatient rooms, clinics, cafeterias, or […]
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No. Dogs whose sole function is to provide comfort or emotional support do not qualify as service animals under the ADA. However, this definition does not affect or limit the broader definition of “assistance animal” under the Fair Housing Act or the broader definition of “service animal” under the Air Carrier Access Act. Some State […]
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), “service animals” are defined as dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual or other mental disability. Recent Posts
A retired New York State Police K-9 dog, attacked the plaintiff’s dog. Plaintiff sued the dog’s owner for damages. While the dog received “handler protection” training, where it is trained to react to an aggressive attack on defendant while on duty, it acted in passive role as an explosive detection dog. Plaintiff argued that the […]
The Albany County (New York) Legislature established an animal abuser registry, making it the third county in New York (and in the entire entire nation) to pass such a law. In the past year, Suffolk County, New York and Rockland County, New Yorkapproved similar legislation. The publicly accessible registries allow communities to track the whereabouts […]
In today’s troubled economic times, many pet owners in Rochester, Rochester, Niagara Falls and other cities in New York are either losing their homes to foreclosure or being evicted from their apartments. When ultimately forced to move, they may not be able to keep pets in their new residences. Upon facing the prospect of putting their […]
New York landlords should carefully weigh the pros and cons of renting to tenants with pets. Many responsible and reliable tenants cannot obtain apartments because they have pets. Landlords who rent to tenants with pets should take the following precautions: Use leases that require: the tenant to provide proof of renter’s insurance containing liability coverage […]
A landlord started a nonpaymenteviction action in Town Court, Westchester County.The tenant’s rent had been partially paid by a subsidy under the Section 8 program. She did not pay her share of the rent for four months. The tenantargued the arrears should be eliminated or significantly reduced by an abatement during eighty-one days ofa bedbuginfestation. […]
The black mother of five children responded to an ad on Rochester Craigslist for the sale or rental of a four-bedroom Amherst, New York single-family home. The rental agent, a licensed New York real estate broker, was listed as the contact. She called the broker and arranged to view the premises. She was met by […]
In a proceeding challenging the validity of certain trusts and transactions involving the decedent’s assets that occurred shortly prior to his death, the petitioner, who was the surviving spouse and limited administrator of the decedent’s estate, sought an order directing, the resumption of the respondent’s deposition and compelling him to respond to certain questions. During […]