Flowers v Gopal: Ugly Laws, Amistad, Blind Tom Wiggins, & The Legal View of Autistic People
"From the late 1860s until the 1970s, several American cities had ugly laws making it illegal for persons with "unsightly or disgusting" disabilities to appear in public. Some of these laws were called unsightly beggar ordinances." Ugly Laws, Wikipedia Political cartoon stereotyping poor disabled in New York City © Library of Congress Today a hearing on discovery motions was scheduled to take place at 9am, in San Jose in the case of R. Flowers, Et Al v V. Gopal, Et Al . The plaintiffs are continuing to demand a permanent injunction against the Gopal family's autistic son, despite the fact that the Gopal family no longer lives in the neighborhood and neither do the Flowers. The plaintiffs claimed that the presence of the Gopal family's child in their neighborhood dropped property values. Actually, the fact that the Flowers' were renters dropped the property value. The Gopal family owned their home. I am trying to grasp how saying a 9 year old child appe...