This fall the Supreme Court will grapple with the issue of whether federal civil rights laws allow compensatory damages for emotional distress in a case that may clarify what legal responsibility federally-funded health care providers have to provide accommodations to patients with disabilities. The lawsuit was brought by a deaf-blind woman denied an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter by a health care provider. “It really is important that the deaf community has access to services that they’re entitled to under the law and that’s an important part of this case,” the woman’s attorney, New York-based Andrew Rozynski, told The Epoch Times in an interview. Rozynski said he was “encouraged” by the Supreme Court’s decision to take the case. The U.S. Department of Justice “filed a brief saying they agree the underlying decisions were wrong and urged the court to take on the case.” “I hope she can get a reversal …