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"Kendall D. Corbett" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:44:04 -0700
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Ken,

Here's the main DREDF contact info,

Contact

All questions and requests for information about DREDF can be directed
to our main office in California:


Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
2212 Sixth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710


T  800-348-4232 (v/tty)
T  510.644.2555 (v/tty)
F  510-841-8645
E  [log in to unmask]

and here's Marilyn Golden's email:

Marilyn Golden
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On Nov 26, 2007 4:09 PM, ken barber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> how would i reach DREDF. I'D FEEL better if the next
> person had a better chance.
>  but hey, i am still super gimp. i can't be hurt
> becouse i have CP. the government keeps affirming
> that.
>
> --- "Kendall D. Corbett" <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>
> > Ken,
> >
> > Really sorry to hear this.  It probably won't help
> > you, but it might
> > help people in the future if we work to have the
> > 1946 law overturned.
> > It's federal right?  Can you give us a citation so
> > we can write our
> > members of Congress?  DREDF might also be
> > interested.  I'll give you
> > my contact there's email address if you want it.
> >
> > On Nov 23, 2007 12:19 PM, ken barber
> > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >  We got our final decision. They rubberstamped the
> > >  other decisions that I just have cerebral palsy
> > and
> > > have no injuries. The MRI showing the herniated
> > disk
> > > that they accepted original means nothing. They
> > say I
> > > have no residual effects of the on the job
> > injuries
> > > even though there are pictures of the twodisk that
> > are
> > > herniated.
> > >
> > > What little money we have coming in is what we
> > have.
> > >  Judy is beside her self.
> > >
> > >  Not every wrong gets righted.   We'll survive. We
> > > have to.
> > >
> > > the 1946 law making it impossible to take the case
> > to
> > > court pretty well stacks the deck against the
> > > employee.
> > >
> > > i fought this as hard as i could and prayed for a
> > > victory. i'd hoped to have a decision on the books
> > > that would help be sure the next CP person with a
> > > injury would not have as tough a fight, but i
> > could
> > > not overcome it. you all know vwey well what i was
> > > going against. possibly you all were the only ones
> > > other than myself that did not what a battle it
> > would
> > > be and what a miricle it would take to actually
> > win.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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> > --
> >
> >
> > Kendall
> >
> > An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> > redundant!)
> >
> > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> > unreasonable one
> > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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> >
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Kendall

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

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