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Americans with Disabilities Act : The Opinions of Justice O'Connor / Nancy Lee Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Nancy Lee, author.
- Series:
- CRS report for Congress ; RS22225.
- CRS report for Congress ; RS22225
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities--Education (Higher).
- People with disabilities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Congressional Research Service, 2005.
- Summary:
- The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a civil rights statute that has as its purpose "to provide a clear and comprehensive national mandate for the elimination of discrimination against individuals with disabilities." Since its enactment in 1990, it has been the subject of numerous lower court decisions and the Supreme Court has decided nineteen ADA cases. Justice O'Connor has been in the majority in almost all of these decisions and has been a deciding vote in several 5-4 decisions, notably in the recent decisions of Garrett v. University of Alabama and Tennessee v. Lane regarding the application of the Eleventh Amendment to the ADA.
- Notes:
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