September 1-5, 2010: ALDAcon 2010 (Colorado Springs, CO)
http://www.alda.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=117&Itemid=57
Obituary: James “Eddie” Edward Stanley
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In Memory of
 James “Eddie” Edward Stanley August 11, 1950 – April 27, 2010
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James “Eddie” Edward Stanley, 59, of Shenandoah, went to be with his Lord Tuesday, April 27, 2010, at Rockingham Memorial Hospital. He had been ill for the past month.
He was born on August 11, 1950 in Shenandoah and was the son of Bettie Comer McDaniel of Shenandoah and the late Harry V. Stanley.
James lived the majority of his life in Shenandoah and in Staunton while attending school at the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, and graduated in 1971. He was formerly employed with Pilgrim’s Pride until 2006 and was a member of Woods Chapel Independent Bible Church in New Market. He loved to tease people and enjoyed fishing.
On October 17, 1979 he married Teresa E. Stanley who survives.
In addition to his wife and mother, he is survived by Sheena Roach and her daughter, Winter Lam, who was reared in their home, a brother, Danny Lee Stanley of Shenandoah, four nieces, two nephews, and two special friends, Virginia Miller of Broadway and Terri Roach of Shenandoah.
The family will receive friends 7-8:00 PM, Friday evening, at the Lindsey-Kyger Funeral Home in Shenandoah. Friends may also call at the Stanley residence at anytime.
A graveside service will be held 1:00 PM, Saturday, May 1, 2010 at Mt. Lebanon Church Cemetery with Pastor Glen Turner and Pastor Carter Dean officiating.
A Memorial service will follow at 2:00 PM, Saturday, at Assembly of God Church in Shenandoah. Services will be interpreted for the deaf.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Lindsey-Kyger Funeral Home, P.O. Box 126, Shenandoah, VA 22849 to help with funeral expenses.
Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.lindseykygerfuneralhome.com.
Gallaudet Baseball Team Attends White House Ceremony
In less than 24 hours, the Gallaudet baseball team met President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and the New York Yankees at a White House ceremony and was featured in the sports section of USA Today. Not a bad run for the Bison, who wrapped up their 2010 baseball season on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 27 at Hoy Field against Valley Forge Christian College.
The baseball team had a front row seat to history on Monday, April 26 as the Bison were special guests of Obama at a ceremony to recognize the Yankees for winning the 2009 World Series, their 27th title, overall. The ceremony took place in the East Room of the White House.
The ceremony was extra special for Gallaudet baseball coach Curtis Pride, who played for the New York Yankees in 2003. As the Yankees entered and exited the East Room, many players came over to Pride to exchange hugs, handshakes, and kind words.
“This is a very exciting day for the Gallaudet University baseball program. It was an honor for us to be invited and be a part of this ceremony. For our players to be able to shake hands with the president and the New York Yankees is an incredible experience,” said Pride. “It was especially great to see old friends from the Yankees organization.”
On Tuesday, April 27, the USA Today story about the Gallaudet baseball program ran on the front cover of the sports section. The newspaper’s baseball reporter, Mel Antonen, an award-winning journalist who has covered Major League Baseball for 24 years, came to Kendall Green twice in April to interview Pride and the Bison student-athletes, and to take in two home games. USA Today sports photographer Jack Gruber also came out twice to see the Bison play, and several of his photos are in the newspaper. Gruber and Katye Martens edited a three-minute video segment with captioning.
Antonen writes about Pride coming to Gallaudet and how his upbringing and his years in Major League Baseball are helping him build the Bison baseball program. The article also has quotes from several of the Bison student-athletes and two of Pride’s former managers, Joe Torre and Mike Scioscia.
Links to the USA Today story and video can be found here.
To see more pictures from the White House ceremony click here.
- Thanks to Sam Atkinson, Gallaudet, 4/30/10, http://aaweb.gallaudet.edu/x41315.xml and NVRC.
Court Rules ADA Requires Closed-Captioned Movies
As we predicted and hoped, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Americans with Disabilities Act requires movie theaters to show closed-captioned movies unless doing so would constitute an “undue burden.”
The ruling came in a case that the Arizona Attorney General’s Office filed against the Harkins theater chain. The federal district court ruled that the ADA does not regulate the content of the goods and services offered by businesses, and that the theaters are in the business of showing non-captioned movies. That case was appealed.
The Ninth Circuit opinion said that while ADA does not generally regulate the content of goods and services, ADA does require businesses to provide “auxiliary aids and services,” which are defined as including open and closed captioning. That specific provision applies to movie theaters, and controls over the general rule that ADA does not regulate content.
The court noted that when ADA was passed, a statement of purpose from the House of Representatives stated that ADA does not require theaters to show open-captioned movies. That interpretation has been adopted consistently by the federal Department of Justice, which is empowered to interpret ADA. The court said that while DOJ may change its interpretation, the theaters are entitled to rely on it until it is changed. Therefore, theaters are not required to show open-captioned movies.
The Arizona district court ruled that there was no basis for treating closed-captioned movies any differently. The Ninth Circuit disagreed. It said that open-captioning, in which captions are visible to the entire audience, may fundamentally alter the movie-going experience for others. But closed-captioning displays captions only to people who want to see them. “The difference between open and closed captioning is more than linguistic,” the opinion states.
The case now goes back to the Arizona district court, where the theaters will be able to argue that closed captioning poses an “undue burden.” Because closed captioning is readily available through the Rear Windows Captioning system, the “undue burden” issue is economic only — how much can the theaters afford?
The theaters can ask for a rehearing, but because the decision was unanimous and issued very quickly, the judges likely regarded this as pretty much of a “slam-dunk” case, and are very unlikely to grant a rehearing. An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is always a possibility, and is somewhat worrisome given that court’s general hostility to ADA cases. But the U.S. Supreme Court picks the cases it wants to consider, and the odds are against appealing parties — only one out of every hundred petitions for review are granted.
Assuming the opinion stands, it will become the law in the Ninth Circuit states of Arizona, California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii, and may be persuasive in the rest of the country.
Our Washington case is currently under advisement. We brought that case under Washington law only, because our state law avoided some of the arguments made under ADA. However, the decision can’t do anything but help our case.
- Thanks to John Waldo, Wash-CAP, 4/30/10, http://www.hearinglosslaw.com/2010/04/articles/washcap-1/public-facilities/court-rules-ada-requires-closedcaptioned-movies/index.html.
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