Today, we spent an entire day preparing our costs submissions.
This is not busywork. It is time, money, and emotional energy – after years of litigation – diverted yet again to procedure instead of substance.
🛑 Refusal to Stay Costs Pending Appeal
Despite knowing that an appeal is imminent, the corporation refused to consent to a stay of costs.
Let’s be clear about what that means.
Seeking to enforce costs before an appeal is heard is not neutral. It is not procedural housekeeping. It is a pressure tactic – designed to exhaust, intimidate, and discourage appellate review.
That choice was deliberate.
📌 What Happens Next
Because the corporation refused to act reasonably, we will ask the court for a stay of costs pending appeal.
This is precisely why courts retain that power: to prevent costs from being used as leverage against parties who are exercising their right to appeal in good faith.
🔥 Why We Are Appealing – No Matter What
We will be appealing.
Not out of spite. Not out of stubbornness. And certainly not because it’s convenient.
We are appealing because the issues in this case matter:
- how disabled individuals are treated by institutions,
- how “civility” is weaponized to excuse discrimination,
- and how accountability quietly disappears when process is treated as more important than people.
Walking away would be easier. It would also be wrong.
🧭 This Was Never Just About Us
From the beginning, this case has been about more than one dispute, one board, or one building.
It is about whether people with less power are expected to absorb harm quietly – so long as it is delivered politely and wrapped in procedure.
We refuse to accept that.
🚀 The Fight Continues
The appeal will move forward.
The request for a stay will be brought.
The record will be challenged.
And the conversation will continue – whether some would prefer it not to.
👀 You May Not Like Us – And That’s Okay
You may not like us. That’s fine.
🔥 Change Doesn’t Come From Comfort
Change has never been driven by the comfortable, the compliant, or the silent. It comes from people who refuse to back down when retreat would be easier.
⚖️ Why We Keep Going
This fight continues not because it’s pleasant, but because it’s necessary. When pressure is applied to make people stop asking hard questions, stopping becomes the very thing you cannot do.
🚶♀️ One Step at a Time
Real change doesn’t arrive in a single ruling or a single victory. It happens through persistence – through small, deliberate steps taken even when the cost is high.
We’re still here.
And we’re not done.
