{"id":16430,"date":"2015-03-22T11:59:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T16:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16430"},"modified":"2015-03-21T08:01:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T13:01:28","slug":"scotusblog-argument-preview-police-and-disability-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16430","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUSBlog: Argument preview: Police and disability rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTUSBlog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2015\/03\/argument-preview-police-and-disability-rights\/\">Argument preview: Police and disability rights<\/a> (Argued March 23) by Lyle Denniston:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Background<\/p>\n<p>Difficult issues of police policy and humane concern confront officers when they attempt to subdue a mentally disabled person whom they know is armed and has made threats.  Aside from immediate safety issues, both for themselves and the person whom they are attempting to subdue, the officers confront potential legal risks under the federal disability rights law, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and under the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Those challenges come together before the Supreme Court in a case growing out of a violent incident about seven years ago in a San Francisco group home for mentally disabled individuals.  Teresa Sheehan, one of the residents there, was shot five or six times, but survived and then sued the officers involved.  The case raises issues under both the ADA and the Fourth Amendment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTUSBlog: Argument preview: Police and disability rights (Argued March 23) by Lyle Denniston: Background Difficult issues of police policy and humane concern confront officers when they attempt to subdue a mentally disabled person whom they know is armed and has &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16430\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16431,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16430\/revisions\/16431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}