INDIANAPOLIS — The State of Indiana has joined a lawsuit that aims to declare Section 504, a federal civil rights law that protects against the discrimination of those with disabilities, ...

Advocates for disability rights are fighting the lawsuit, which would push more people to be warehoused in institutions.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita speaks during a February 2026 news conference. (Photo by Leslie Bonilla Muñiz/Indiana Capital ...

Disability rights activist Isabel Mavirdes-Calderón posed a question on her Instagram last September. More than a decade before, a shooter killed 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary ...

One advocate emphasized that all people with disabilities have the same voting rights. That includes people under guardianship, and people living in health care institutions, such as nursing, assisted ...

President Trump’s March remarks, suggesting that learning disabilities should be a disqualifier for the presidency, made international headlines. But they overshadowed another urgent issue: Disability ...

(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — Indiana’s attorney general has pulled out of a Republican-led lawsuit that aimed to strike down part of a federal law providing discrimination protections for people with ...