Adjartey v. Cent. Div. of the Hous. Court Departmentand, 120 N.E.3d 297 (2019)

Citation: Adjartey v. Cent. Div. of the Hous. Court Departmentand, 120 N.E.3d 297 (2019) 3.
Parent Document: Adjartey v. Cent. Div. of the Hous. Court Departmentand, 120 N.E.3d 297 (2019)
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts (state)
Effective Date: 2019-04-10
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7178223/adjartey-v-cent-div-of-the-hous... ↗

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3. Reasonable accommodations for parties with disabilities. Several petitioners claim that the Housing Court improperly denied their requests for reasonable accommodations, thereby denying them equal access to the courts. Specifically, the petitioners allege that they were unable to attend or to fully participate in their eviction **847hearings due to the court's failure to accommodate their disabilities. For this reason, the petitioners argue, their need to access audio recordings of the hearings was heightened. Based on the record before us, which provides little information about the specific disabilities at issue or the particular accommodations requested, we are unable to evaluate the individual claims of these petitioners. We do, however, take this opportunity to clarify and confirm the obligation of Massachusetts courts to provide reasonable accommodations to litigants with disabilities.23

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