[blindlaw] No Food Stamps for Service Dog, But His Disabled Owner May Now Have a Lawyer, ABA Journal, April 7 2010

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Well it won't be the 9th Circuit since this originated in Pennsylvania.
Chuck
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> So are we to infer that the 9th circuit is now going to rule that dogs
> should get food stamps?
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> Subject: [blindlaw] No Food Stamps for Service Dog, But His Disabled Owner
> May Now Have a Lawyer, ABA Journal, April 7 2010
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> Link:
> http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/no_food_stamps_for_service_dog_but_
> his_disabled_owner_may_now_have_a_lawyer
>
> Text:
> No Food Stamps for Service Dog, But His Disabled Owner May Now Have a 
> Lawyer
> Posted April 7, 2010 By Martha Neil
>
> A service dog doesn't qualify for food stamps, a Pennsylvania court has
> ruled, because he isn't human.
>
> But the animal's disabled owner, James Douris, may not have to argue the
> legal issue on his own much longer. Although he lost a pro se Pennsylvania
> Commonwealth Court case arguing that the dog's nutritional requirements
> should be taken into account, as a household member, in determining his
> owner's food stamp allotment, Douris says his phone has been ringing off 
> the
> hook since the court's decision yesterday, reports the L.A. Unleashed blog
> of the Los Angeles Times.
>
> Among those calling are lawyers who want to help him with an appeal, he
> says. Even the court that ruled against him, upholding an earlier
> determination by the Department of Public Welfare, apparently would have
> liked to see a different result:
>
> "This court is sympathetic to [Douris'] argument that his service dog is a
> necessity for him due to his disability, and that he lacks the funds to
> properly feed his service dog," states Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer in the
> written opinion. "We hope that there is some other state or federal 
> program
> that might provide for the maintenance and upkeep of [the] dog."
>
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