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Several attorneys and government agencies who deal with disability issues said yesterday that there is some merit to Amaral's claims, but added that the notion of moving a wheelchair does not always constitute criminal assault...
...Figure that her wheelchair is her legs. Would someone pick a person up and move them?" asked Lorraine Greiff, director of the Massachusetts Office on Disability. "You can't just take away someone's liberties by picking them up and treating them like they were a pencil that fell to the floor. Does that rise to the level of assault? I don't know, but I would say that it's as serious as pushing," she said...
Merry added that although the claimant did notnecessarily have the right to block the elevatordoor with her wheelchair, the dean's actions werequestionable...
Many of the attorneys contacted said thespecifics of the incident--including an incidentalmeeting, a conversation, a blocked elevator door,a moved wheelchair, a meeting and subsequentapologies--were unique...
Greiff said she had not heard of many assaultcases where the physical contact involved only theclaimant's wheelchair...