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1 online resource (xii, 235 pages) : illustrations |
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University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections. PPiU
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University of Pittsburgh Digital Editions. PPiU
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| Contents |
Disability rights as civil rights -- Disability rights and the workplace -- Disability rights and public entities -- Disability rights and public accommodations -- Disability rights and state sovereignty |
| Summary |
"Susan Mezey argues that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 has not fulfilled its potential primarily because of the judiciary's "disabling interpretations" in adjudicating ADA claims. In a decade of litigation, judicial interpretation of the law has largely constricted the parameters of disability rights and excluded large numbers of claimants from the reach of the law. The Supreme Court has not interpreted the act broadly, as was intended by Congress, and this method of decision making has been for the most part mirrored by the courts below |
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"The high court's rulings to expand state sovereign immunity and insulate states from liability in damage suits have also caused claimants to become enmeshed in litigation and have encouraged defendants to challenge other laws affecting disability rights. Despite the law's strong civil rights rhetoric, disability rights remain an imperfectly realized goal." --Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
United States. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 -- Cases
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| SUBJECT |
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (United States) fast |
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People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- Cases
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LAW -- Constitutional.
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LAW -- Public.
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LAW -- Disability.
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People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822972792 |
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0822972794 |
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