[nagdu] Blind woman sues nudist community over guide dog

[L Gwizdak]

What country is this???? If in the US, then where's the ADA?  Where are the 
blindness groups?  Just asking.

Lyn and Landon
"Asking who's the man and who's the woman in an LGBT relationship is like 
asking which chopstick is the fork" - Unknown
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From: "Ginger Kutsch" <GingerKutsch at yahoo.com>
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Subject: [nagdu] Blind woman sues nudist community over guide dog


> Blind woman sues nudist community over guide dog
>
> Feb 27, 2014 4:36 AM EST
>
> By: Aaron Mesmer, FOX 13 News -
>
> Source:
> http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/24835372/2014/02/26/blind-woman-fights-co
> ndo-association-to-keep-guide-dog
>
> LUTZ (FOX 13) - A blind woman living in a nudist community in Lutz vowed
> Wednesday to continue her fight to keep her guide dog and keep living in 
> her
> condominium.
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>
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> Sharon Fowler has had her service dog since 2011, shortly after a medical
> condition caused her to lose her vision.
>
>
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> "It is the most difficult thing," she said. "It's not only adjusting to
> everything becoming dark and black, it's loss of freedom."
>
>
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> And Fowler said that loss of freedom led her to her dog, Laura.
>
>
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> "Laura is my best friend," Fowler said.
>
>
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> Fowler and her husband, Craig, moved to Paradise Lakes Condominiums in 
> 2012.
> They say they had already been settled in when the community association
> told them Laura, a black Labrador, is too big and had to go, or they had 
> to
> move out.
>
>
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> But the Fowlers said they thought this would be a free-thinking and
> accepting community and have been stunned by how management has handled 
> the
> guide dog situation.
>
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>
>
> Still, they say they're not going anywhere.
>
>
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> "I am legally blind. Laura is a trained, certified guide dog," Sharon 
> said.
> "You cannot bully us. We will not leave. This is our home. I won't be
> embarrassed. I won't be intimidated. We will go all the way with this, and
> we've done nothing wrong."
>
>
>
> "I have to sit back and behave myself and watch my wife go through some of
> the most embarrassing and traumatic times that she's ever had to go
> through," Craig said.
>
>
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> The Fowlers filed a lawsuit against the condo association for mental 
> anguish
> and asked a judge to force the association to allow them to stay, at least
> for now.
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>
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> The suit was initially thrown out, but an appellate court has since
> overturned that ruling.
>
>
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> "I won't be embarrassed. I won't be intimidated. We will go all the way 
> with
> this," Sharon said.
>
>
>
> FOX 13 left messages for the condo association manager and president of 
> the
> board of directors, but our calls were not returned.
>
>
>
>
>
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