CT woman, one of country's first openly autistic elected officials, wins town discrimination case

Sarah Selvaggi Hernandez, an occupational therapist who is autistic and deaf, recently won her municipal discrimination lawsuit in a U.S. District Court in Connecticut after a legal battle that spanned more than four years. In a unanimous decision, a federal jury returned a verdict in favor of Hernandez, a former town of Enfield elected official who argued that the town and its board of ...

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