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</style><title>Disability and Civil Rights Groups Sue DeVos Over Investigation Rollbacks - The New York Times</title><div class="original-url"><br><a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/us/politics/devos-education-civil-rights-lawsuit.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes">https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/us/politics/devos-education-civil-rights-lawsuit.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes</a><br><br></div><div id="article" role="article" style="text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="system exported">
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<div class="page" style="text-align: start; word-wrap: break-word; max-width: 100%;"><h1 class="title" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.95552em; line-height: 1.2141em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; text-align: start; -webkit-hyphens: manual; display: block; max-width: 100%;">Disability and Civil Rights Groups Sue DeVos Over Investigation Rollbacks</h1><div class="metadata singleline" style="text-align: start; -webkit-hyphens: manual; display: block; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-top: -0.75em; max-width: 100%;"><time datetime="2018-05-31" class="date" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; font-weight: normal !important; font-style: normal !important; display: inline !important;">May 31, 2018</time></div><header style="max-width: 100%;"><figure aria-label="media" role="group" itemscope="" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/06/01/us/politics/01dc-civilrights-1/01dc-civilrights-1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="max-width: 100%; font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: -apple-system-font; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65098); margin: 1.4em 0px;"><div style="max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/06/01/us/politics/01dc-civilrights-1/01dc-civilrights-1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale" srcset="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/06/01/us/politics/01dc-civilrights-1/01dc-civilrights-1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp 600w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/06/01/us/politics/01dc-civilrights-1/01dc-civilrights-1-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp 1024w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/06/01/us/politics/01dc-civilrights-1/01dc-civilrights-1-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp 2048w" sizes="((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 60vw, 100vw" itemprop="url" itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/06/01/us/politics/01dc-civilrights-1/01dc-civilrights-1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale" class="" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0.5em auto; display: block; height: auto;"></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" style="max-width: 100%; margin-top: 0.8em; width: 100%; font-size: 0.75rem; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);"><span style="max-width: 100%; margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.25em;">Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Officials in her department said revisions to its case-processing manual targeted a handful of individuals who had generated thousands of complaints that were straining the department’s resources.</span><span itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="max-width: 100%; margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.25em;"><span style="max-width: 100%;">Mark Wilson/Getty Images</span></span></figcaption></figure></header><div style="max-width: 100%;"><div style="max-width: 100%;"><p style="max-width: 100%;">BALTIMORE — Three national civil rights organizations sued the Education Department on Thursday over new procedures that allow its Office for Civil Rights to dismiss complaints that it determines to be burdensome or a drain on the department’s resources.</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">The National Federation of the Blind, the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said that the department was “arbitrary and capricious” in making substantive revisions to its case-processing manual, which guides its handling of civil rights complaints, without giving the public notice, an explanation or a chance to comment.</p></div></div><span style="max-width: 100%;"></span></div></div></div><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Jim Y. McCollum<div><a href="mailto:j.mccollum64@comcast.net">j.mccollum64@comcast.net</a> </div><div>860-581-0430 (mobile) </div><div>203-535-1620 (home)</div><div><br></div><div><div>Sent from my iPhone</div></div></div></body></html>