Robertson v. Las Animas County Sheriff's Department

How courts have described this case

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• holding that failing to provide deaf arrestee with auxiliary aids at probable cause hearing constituted a Title II injury even though the charges were dismissed
• recognizing that knowledge of need for accommodation “may derive from an individual’s request for an accommodation” or “because it is obvious”
• holding that prisons are “public entities” covered by Title II of the ADA
• concluding that the plaintiff presented a viable ADA claim, where officials knew he was deaf, which rendered his “need for an accommodation [] obvious when he attempted to use prison services necessarily involving aural communication”
• concluding that “a public entity is on notice that an individual needs an accommodation when it knows that an individual requires one, either because that need is obvious or because the individual requests an accommodation”
• observing that \Title II's use of the term 'reasonable modifications' is essentially equivalent to Title I's use of the term 'reasonable accommodation[s]' \

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).