[blindlaw] ADA and Discovery

Sun Apr 4 21:21:55 UTC 2010

In California blind people are not automatically excused from jury duty 
because of blindness. The last time I was called was for a medical 
malpractice wrongful death suit and I was going to be seated as an 
alternate. What got me excused was the concern of the defense attorney that 
my experience as a paralegal working for plaintiff and criminal defense 
attorneys would cause me to have bias in favor of the plaintiff in the case. 
This is what I suspected would happen when I was questioned. The blindness 
issue was not a factor.
Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RJ Sandefur" <joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 7:12 AM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] ADA and Discovery


> John, I remember once I had jury duty, and I called three weeks ahead of 
> time, and told my circuits disability person that I had jury duty. Unknown 
> to me, My mother wrote, "I'm totaly blind please excuse on my jury form." 
> It was realy imbarising. Now I'm told I'm incompantant to serve as a jurer 
> do to the fact my doctor wrote a note stating I am blind. This happened 
> serval years ago. What if anything should I have done at the time? RJ
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Ramsey" <joramsey at cox.net>
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> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] ADA and Discovery
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>> That is one of the problems when they scan an image of the original
>> handwritten document and do not title the image in a way that a blind
>> practitioner is going to have knowledge of that document in a timely 
>> manner.
>> I think that the overall issue is whether or not the State is required or
>> should be required to provide the text documents in an accessible format. 
>> I
>> am sure the ultimate answer is yes.
>>
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of ckrugman at sbcglobal.net
>> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 4:10 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] ADA and Discovery
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>>
>> If you have access to Kurzweil or Open Book software those files can be 
>> sent
>>
>> through those programs and reade. Most likely the files were scanned in 
>> to a
>>
>> PDF document and they are images. The only problem that will occur is if 
>> the
>>
>> documents contain hand-written pages as they will not be recognized by 
>> OCR
>> software.
>> Chuck Krugman, M.S.W., Paralegal
>> 1237 P Street
>> Fresno ca 93721
>> 559-266-9237
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "John Ramsey" <joramsey at cox.net>
>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 12:34 PM
>> Subject: [blindlaw] ADA and Discovery
>>
>>
>>> Hello All of the Criminal practitioners on the list,
>>> I practice criminal law here in Florida and have encountered a
>>> problem.
>>> When
>>> the State and Public Defender's Offices are providing me with documents,
>>> they are in a PDF that JAWS reads as blank. As you can imagine the 
>>> default
>>> titles of the PDF files can basically nullify any real attempts to
>>> discover
>>> what the document is. My question is: has anyone had to challenge the 
>>> form
>>> of discovery under the ADA? If so, what was the outcome?
>>> Cordially,
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>> John A. Ramsey Jr., P.A.
>>>
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>>>
>>> Gainesville, FL 32627
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>>> Phone: (352) 505-6642
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