A civil rights lawsuit claiming the Florida Legislature should provide captioning on all live-streamed and archived proceedings has survived a motion to dismiss, as the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit found that the fundamental right to participate in the democratic process was at stake.
The appellate panel looked further than the Americans With Disabilities Act to note that, without access to information about what legislative representatives are doing, deaf citizens can’t properly petition their government for assistance.
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