Category: Help me Howard

Help me Howard – Condo won’t accommodate renovation of elevator for resident in wheelchair (until the DIAL Clinic intervened)

picture of 8 perople on a couch and a person using a wheelchair in the middle
Winter 2023 DIAL students and professors with our client, Alejandro Lutin
WSVN News Help Me Howard segment came to the DIAL clinic when it could not assist Mr. Lutin, who is a paraplegic and uses a wheelchair for mobility, when his condominium association was going to turn off the elevator for several weeks. This would have trapped Mr. Lutin in his home. The DIAL clinic snatched loitering VLC student Alexander Lumley and he and Professor Talhia Rangel drafted a complaint and preliminary injunction to file in federal court. The proposed complaint and injunction were sent to the association’s lawyers, and they agreed to delay any modification until the end of Mr. Lutin’s lease.   The story was on the Help Me Howard segment on March 17, 2023.