After being open about having autism and being deaf during her run for office, Sarah Selvaggi Hernandez said she was repeatedly denied disability accommodations prompting a four-year legal battle.
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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 .