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

Tue Apr 13 20:17:54 UTC 2010

Oh, I thought it was a CA case

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Well it won't be the 9th Circuit since this originated in Pennsylvania.
Chuck
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] No Food Stamps for Service Dog,But His Disabled 
Owner May Now Have a Lawyer, ABA Journal,April 7 2010

> 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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> g_but_
> his_disabled_owner_may_now_have_a_lawyer
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> 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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