WASHINGTON (TEXAS TRIBUNE) — The U.S. Supreme Court appeared fairly split among party lines during oral arguments Tuesday in a Texas case involving how to define intellectual disability among death ...

Twelve years after banning the execution of the "mentally retarded," the U.S. Supreme Court is examining the question of who qualifies as having mental retardation, for purposes of capital cases, and ...

The term “disability” under the ADA is defined as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; has a record of such an impairment; or ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Radical technologies around the world may soon overhaul the field of disability and immobility, which affects in some way more than a billion people around the world. MIT bionics designer Hugh Herr, ...

According to Social Security’s Disability Insurance program, there are only two kinds of disability: completely disabled or not. But in reality, disability is more complex than that. The program’s ...

According to an article by CNNMoney, America’s unemployment statistics are somewhat skewed due to the fact that many Americans are relying on government support. Experts estimate that 8.3 million ...

Researchers recommend extending the minimum timeframe for confirming disability progression in multiple sclerosis (MS) from 3–6 months to 12 or 24 months to better distinguish true irreversible ...

Abigail Heringer made history and headlines as soon as she first appeared on television screens during the Jan. 2021 premiere of the 25th season of The Bachelor. But while she gained notoriety as the ...