What is a Service Animal? | Assistance Animals Law Update 2024
What is a service animal and what is an emotional support animal, and what is the difference between the two? What federal laws provide protections, such as the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), and what additional protections does New York provide? What other laws come into play, such as in housing? What law covers airplane travel and what issues arise there? What animals are allowed to be service animals or emotional support animals? What are your rights if you have a service animal, including what you do not need to do or provide? What accommodations are you entitled to, and what accommodations are you not entitled to? This program will discuss these and other issues surrounding Assistance Animals, to enable you to better understand this area of law for yourself, and to better serve and advise your clients.
- November 7, 2024
- 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
- 1.0
- 1.0
- Virtual Participation
- What is a service animal; what is an emotional support animal; and what is the difference between the two?
- What federal laws provide protections, such as the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), and what additional protections does New York provide?
- What other laws come into play, such as in housing?
- What law covers airplane travel and what issues arise there?
- What animals are allowed to be service animals or emotional support animals?
- What are your rights if you have a service animal, including what you do not need to do or provide?
- What accommodations are you entitled to or not entitled to?
12:00 p.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Welcome and Introduction
12:05 p.m. – 12:55 p.m.
What is a Service Animal? Assistance Animals Law Update 2024
This program will discuss these and other issues surrounding Assistance Animals, to enable you to better understand this area of law for yourself, and to better serve and advise your clients.
Speakers:
Jeanne McArdle, MPS, Canine Companions®, Medford, NY
Jessica Richwalder, Esq., Senior Staff Attorney, Disability Rights New York
Brandy Tomlinson, Esq., Senior Staff Attorney, Disability Rights New York
1.0 Credit in Areas of Professional Practice
12:55 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Q&A
- Jeanne McArdle, MPS, Canine Companions® Northeast Region
- Jessica Richwalder, Esq., Disability Rights New York
- Brandy Tomlinson, Esq., Disability Rights New York
- Webinar
- 0PL31
- Committee on Disability Rights
- Committee on Animals and the Law
- Local and State Government Law Section
- Committee on Continuing Legal Education
