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[mailto:chapter-presidents-bounces@nfbnet.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Freeh,Jessica
(by way of David Andrews <dandrews@visi.com>)<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday,
April 14, 2010 5:13 AM<BR><B>To:</B> david.andrews@nfbnet.org<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[Chapter-presidents] National Federation of the Blind to Present Third Jacobus
tenBroek Disability Law Symposium<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><B>FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE<BR><BR></B> <BR><BR><B>CONTACT:<BR><BR></B>Chris
Danielsen<BR><BR>Director of Public Relations<BR><BR>National Federation of the
Blind<BR><BR>(410) 659-9314, extension 2330<BR><BR>(410) 262-1281
(Cell)<BR><BR><A
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<H1><B>National Federation of the Blind to Present <BR>Third Jacobus tenBroek
Disability Law Symposium<BR><BR><BR></B></H1>
<H2><B>Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez and <BR>Former
Congressman Tony Coelho to be Keynote Speakers<BR><BR><BR></I></B></H2></DIV>
<H1><B><BR><BR><BR>Baltimore, Maryland (April 13, 2010): The National Federation
of the Blind (NFB) will present the third Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law
Symposium on April 15–16, 2010, at the NFB Jernigan Institute in
Baltimore. The symposium, entitled “Equality, Difference, and The Right to
Live in the World” and named for NFB founder and pioneering legal scholar Dr.
Jacobus tenBroek (1911–1968), will gather public officials, legal scholars, and
disability rights advocates for a two-day seminar on the state of disability law
in the United States and the world, and will discuss how disability rights may
be advanced in the future. Tom Perez, assistant attorney general for the
civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and Tony Coelho, former
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current chairman of the board of the American Association of People with
Disabilities, will be the keynote speakers.</B></H1>“Our first two Jacobus
tenBroek symposiums were extraordinary events, and we are looking forward to
once again hosting leading players and thinkers in the disability community,”
said Dr. Marc Maurer, an attorney and President of the National Federation of
the Blind. “Disability law is rapidly changing at the national and
international level, and this forum will provide an opportunity for everyone to
assess developments and plan strategies in this dynamic and critically-important
field.”<BR><BR> <BR><BR>Other presenters at the 2010 symposium include the
Honorable Richard Brown, chief judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals; Mark
Weber, Vincent DePaul Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law; and
Dan Brock, director of the division of medical ethics at Harvard Medical
School.<BR><BR> <BR><BR>Dr. Jacobus tenBroek was a constitutional law
scholar, a blind professor at Berkeley, and an author of treatises on the
Fourteenth Amendment and social welfare. Dr. tenBroek created the concept
that civil rights should apply to disabled Americans, and he published
extensively on the application of the law to those with disabilities. His
efforts to advance civil rights for the blind and others with disabilities
included drafting the model White Cane Law, which has had a profound influence
on the development of civil rights laws for the disabled throughout the United
States, and publishing authoritative articles like “The Right to Live in the
World: The Disabled in the Law of Torts.”<BR><BR> <BR><BR>The proceedings
of the symposium will be published in the <I>Texas Journal on Civil Liberties
and Civil Rights.<BR><BR></I> <BR><BR>For more information about the
National Federation of the Blind, please visit <A
href="http://www.nfb.org/">www.nfb.org</A>. <BR><BR> <BR><BR>
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align=center><B><BR><BR>###<BR><BR> <BR><BR> <BR><BR></B></DIV> <BR><BR><B>About
the National Federation of the Blind<BR><BR></B> <BR><BR>With more than
50,000 members, the National Federation of the Blind is the largest and most
influential membership organization of blind people in the United States.
The NFB improves blind people’s lives through advocacy, education, research,
technology, and programs encouraging independence and self-confidence. It
is the leading force in the blindness field today and the voice of the nation's
blind. In January 2004 the NFB opened the National Federation of the Blind
Jernigan Institute, the first research and training center in the United States
for the blind led by the blind.<BR><BR></BODY></HTML>