Draft:Andrew Rozynski

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• Comment: Thank you for the review. I am resubmitting after taking a close look at the decline reason, and I want to identify the specific sources that I believe satisfy the basic criteria at WP:BASIC, since they may have been difficult to pick out among the case-specific citations.
  Two cited sources are significant, secondary, independent coverage of the subject himself rather than passing mentions in case reporting. First, Bloomberg Law, "New York Firm Advocates for Deaf Community" (March 6, 2017), is an editorially produced profile from a reliable legal trade publication; it covers the subject's background as a child of deaf adults, his path into disability rights practice, and his role as co-director of the practice group. Second, The Daily Moth, "Coda lawyer to represent DeafBlind client before Supreme Court" (November 2021), is an independent news outlet serving the deaf community; the piece is about the subject, published ahead of his argument in Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C., 596 U.S. 212 (2022).
  Beyond those profiles, SCOTUSblog's argument analysis (December 2, 2021) independently discusses his advocacy before the Court, and the Supreme Court's day call for November 30, 2021 confirms he argued the case for the petitioner. WP:BASIC provides that where the depth of coverage in a given source is not substantial, multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability. The remaining citations, including the published Fourth Circuit decision coverage in Carolina Journal and Virginia Lawyers Weekly, HuffPost, and Hudson County View, are offered to verify the article's case content, not to carry notability on their own. ~2026-46651-22 (talk) 15:59, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

Andrew Rozynski
Rozynski in 2026
Education	University of Massachusetts Amherst (BA) Dickinson School of Law of Pennsylvania State University (JD)
Occupation	Attorney
Employer(s)	Eisenberg & Baum, LLP
Known for	Disability rights litigation on behalf of deaf and hard-of-hearing clients; arguing Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C. before the U.S. Supreme Court

Andrew Rozynski is an American civil rights attorney. He is a partner at the New York law firm Eisenberg & Baum, LLP, and co-director of the firm's Law Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, a practice group devoted to representing deaf and hard-of-hearing clients in discrimination cases. He litigates under disability rights statutes including the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. In 2021, he argued Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C. before the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of a deaf-blind woman who had been denied an American Sign Language interpreter by a physical therapy provider.

Early life and education

Rozynski is a CODA (child of deaf adults) and grew up interpreting for his deaf parents. He has said that watching his father lose employment opportunities because of his deafness shaped his decision to build a legal career serving the deaf community. He is fluent in American Sign Language.

He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he completed an individual concentration in law and deaf studies and graduated magna cum laude, and received his Juris Doctor from the Dickinson School of Law of Pennsylvania State University in 2011.

Career

After law school, Rozynski briefly operated his own practice before joining Eisenberg & Baum, LLP, in New York City. At the firm he became co-director, together with deaf advocate Sheryl Eisenberg-Michalowski, of its Law Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, which represents plaintiffs in discrimination cases involving healthcare, employment, courts, housing, policing, and technology. He is admitted to the bars of New York and New Jersey, and to federal courts including the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States courts of appeals for the First through Eleventh Circuits, and federal district courts in more than twenty-five states.

Notable cases

Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller

Rozynski represented Jane Cummings, a deaf and legally blind Texas woman who was denied an ASL interpreter by the physical therapy provider Premier Rehab Keller, in litigation under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. After the Fifth Circuit held that emotional distress damages were unavailable, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to resolve a circuit split, and Rozynski argued the case for the petitioner on November 30, 2021, his first argument before the Court. The Court ruled against Cummings in April 2022, and the decision has since been widely discussed in the disability rights bar, including as the framing subject of the National Federation of the Blind's 2024 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium programming on damages litigation "in a post-Cummings world."

Basta v. Novant Health

Rozynski represented Neil Basta, a deaf man who alleged that Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center failed to provide interpretive services during his wife's hospitalization. In December 2022, the Fourth Circuit, in a published opinion by Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, unanimously reversed summary judgment for the hospital, holding that a jury could find deliberate indifference where a hospital had notice of a patient's need for auxiliary aids and failed to provide them.

Police and court access

Rozynski was among the attorneys representing Diana Williams, a deaf woman who alleged that the New York City Police Department arrested and detained her without providing a sign language interpreter, in Williams v. City of New York. New York City agreed in 2015 to pay $750,000 to settle the case.

He also represented Ryan Cuevas, a deaf Jersey City resident who waited months for an interpreter in municipal court proceedings over a parking ticket. In 2024, a federal judge in New Jersey granted summary judgment finding the Jersey City Municipal Court liable under the ADA and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, and the city later moved to approve a $175,000 settlement.

Panarra v. HTC

In Panarra v. HTC, Rozynski represented a deaf man who alleged that HTC's Viveport Infinity virtual reality subscription service violated Title III of the ADA by failing to caption its content. The case, described as the first lawsuit over captioning in virtual reality, survived a motion to dismiss in April 2022 and settled in 2023, with HTC agreeing to require captioning for third-party content on the service.

Patterson v. Six Flags

In Patterson v. Six Flags Theme Parks, Rozynski represented a deaf man who was denied ASL interpreters at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in California. In November 2024, a federal district court in California found Six Flags liable under the ADA and California's Unruh Civil Rights Act, awarding damages and ordering injunctive relief concerning interpreter requests, staff training, and compliance.

Fair housing litigation

Representing the Fair Housing Justice Center, Rozynski and his firm sued four operators of residential substance abuse treatment facilities in the Eastern District of New York, alleging that they refused to provide ASL interpreters to deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals seeking admission. Between 2021 and 2023, all four operators settled, agreeing to monetary relief and to admission, interpreter, and staff training reforms.

External links

• Profile at Eisenberg & Baum, LLP
• Andrew Rozynski at Oyez

Category:Living people Category:American civil rights lawyers Category:New York (state) lawyers Category:University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Category:Penn State Dickinson Law alumni