DHHBA Blog

The Deaf and Hard of Hearing Bar Association (DHHBA) will hold its inaugural DHHBA Conference (DHHBACon) on June 29-30, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois at the

Past DHHBA President and current DHHBA member Anat Maytal was recently featured in Boston University School of Law’s alumni magazine, The Record, at http://www.bu.edu/law/2019/05/29/pushing-through, where you

Carrie Ann Lucas was a valued member of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Bar Association, mentoring attorneys and law students, sharing advice, and serving

Please welcome our new DHHBA Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2019 for a term of two years pursuant to the DHHBA bylaws. The outgoing

District of Columbia Councilmember Charles Allen, along with three co-sponsors, recently introduced the Open Movie Captioning Requirement Act of 2018 to the Council of the

This last year alone, federal courts in Florida, California, and New York have ruled that employers that provide public accommodations, including Winn-Dixie, Five Guys, and

If you are visiting our website, then you probably have an interest in deaf and hard of hearing lawyers. Perhaps you are deaf or hard

Open captioning is great. The captions are right there on the screen. We don’t need to self-identify and pick up a viewing device. The theaters

The U.S. Department of Justice, which is empowered to enact regulations implementing the ADA, had shown a mild interest in movie captioning as early as

While courts were struggling with the concept of movie captioning, technical developments were moving in the right direction. Although under no legal obligation to do