Attorney General Alan Wilson announces significant developments in resolving Section 504 lawsuit

(COLUMBIA, S.C) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and 16 other states filed a court update Wednesday night to clarify that a recent lawsuit will not take away Section 504 accommodations for anyone with a disability. Instead, it is intended to challenge the Biden administration’s use of Section 504 as an unlawful way to coerce states into implementing something that Congress expressly rejected in 1973.

“We’ve been saying all along that there was never any intention to take away 504 accommodations, and this court filing confirms that,” Attorney General Wilson said.

The joint status report says, “Plaintiffs clarify that they have never moved—and do not plan to move—the Court to declare or enjoin Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794, as unconstitutional on its face.”

“We never asked the court to throw out Section 504 entirely. We were challenging the Biden administration trying to force states to adopt woke gender ideology by trying to attach it to Section 504 as a condition for federal funding,” Attorney General Wilson said.

He adds that this is a big step towards this lawsuit winding down and going away entirely.

You can read the court filing here.