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SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND DAVIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER re: sign language interpreters and auxiliary aids and services Settlement Agreement | DOJ Press Releases SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTSettlement Agreement • May 5th, 2020
This matter was brought by the United States against Davis Hospital and Medical Center ("Davis" or "Hospital") to enforce the provisions of title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ("ADA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12181-12189, and the Department of Justice’s implementing regulation, 28 C.F.R. Part 36, following the filing of a complaint by Janelle C. Deelstra with the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice ("the Department"). It is alleged,, inter alia, that Davis discriminated against Mrs. Deelstra by failing or refusing to provide a qualified sign language interpreter for Jerry Deelstra and his wife, Janelle Deelstra, who are both deaf and had requested an interpreter, when Mr. Deelstra received treatment at Davis’s hospital during the periods of August 17 and 18, 1998 and October 9 through 13, 1998, at which time the hospital was under previous ownership. The United States and Davis desire to settle the action between them without the burden of prolong
