Judge:  Deaf Woman’s ACA Discrimination Claim Survives Judgment

Mealey's (May 22, 2020, 2:26 PM EDT) -- DENVER — A deaf woman’s discrimination claims against a health care provider and its owners under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Rehabilitation Act survive defendants’ motion for judgment, but only a jury can decide whether they violated her rights by failing to provide an interpreter, a federal judge in Colorado said May 20 in denying her dueling motion (Cynthia Mullen, et al. v. South Denver Rehabilitation, et al., No. 18-1552, D. Colo.)....