A woman who uses a wheelchair due to a spinal injury has accused the county that includes Las Vegas of unfairly targeting people with disabilities under its new ban on standing or stopping while crossing pedestrian bridges on the Strip, according to a federal lawsuit filed Friday. “Making criminals out of ordinary people who stop for even a few moments, like our client who has to stop periodically because she uses a manual wheelchair, is reckless," said Athar Haseebullah, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada. The ACLU's legal challenge comes one month after the ordinance took effect in Clark County.
During his tenure as an arena football player in Sioux Falls, S.D., Amherst native Dr. Nick Bigrigg suffered a spinal injury after a hard tackle into the boards. Though Bigrigg played through the injury for the rest of the season, the team refused to pass him for his physical for the following season. Following one […]