Activists for Handicapped Protest at Judge’s Home
Activists for the handicapped demonstrated Wednesday at the Canoga Park home of a San Fernando Superior Court judge, who reversed a jury verdict awarding $7.5 million to a paralyzed woman who was raped in a North Hollywood nursing home.
The demonstration was condemned by court officials and some other disabled activists, who criticized the demonstrators for endangering the judge in a week when a federal judge in Alabama was killed by a mail bomb.
Carrying signs bearing slogans such as “Judge: what if it was your daughter?” and “We treat the dead better,” 22 members of American Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation held a candlelight vigil at the home of Judge David M. Schacter in protest of his October reversal of a jury award in the case of Andrea Nerpel, 39, who was raped at the Laurelwood Nursing Home in 1982. Schacter ruled there was insufficient evidence to support contentions of negligence by the nursing home staff.
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