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Re Coca-Cola Bottling Ltd And Retail, Wholesale And Department Store Union, Local 1065 (Colpitts), Innis Christie Nov 1998

Re Coca-Cola Bottling Ltd And Retail, Wholesale And Department Store Union, Local 1065 (Colpitts), Innis Christie

Innis Christie Collection

Employee grievance alleging breach of the Collective Agreement between the parties dated July 3, 1997, which the parties agreed is the Collective Agreement that governs this matter, and in particular of Article 9:03(d), in that the Employer denied the Grievor Long-Term Disability benefits. The Grievance requested "full redress".


Protecting Patients From Discrimination: The Americans With Disabilities Act And Hiv Infection, George J. Annas Jan 1998

Protecting Patients From Discrimination: The Americans With Disabilities Act And Hiv Infection, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed in 1990 to expand the reach of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and make discrimination on the basis of disability unlawful. The wheelchair symbol has become a universal sign of disability, but there are, of course, many types of disability that have been the basis of discrimination over the years, including blindness, deafness, epilepsy, cancer, heart disease, and mental retardation. AIDS is a disability under the ADA, and most commentators have assumed that infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) also qualifies as a disability under this act. It was not, however, …


The Supreme Court, 1997 Term -- Leading Cases -- Federal Statutes And Regulations -- Americans With Disabilities Act -- Asymptomatic Hiv, Peter Nicolas Jan 1998

The Supreme Court, 1997 Term -- Leading Cases -- Federal Statutes And Regulations -- Americans With Disabilities Act -- Asymptomatic Hiv, Peter Nicolas

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Medicaid Managed Care And Disability Discrimination Issues, Mary Crossley Jan 1998

Medicaid Managed Care And Disability Discrimination Issues, Mary Crossley

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This article examines issues potentially raised under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by states' decisions whether and how to include disabled Medicaid recipients in the massive shift towards Medicaid managed care. Part II briefly examines the special issues that disabled Medicaid recipients pose with respect to managed care enrollment. These include issues of cost, quality, access, and program design and implementation. Part III describes various approaches that state programs have taken or are proposing to take with respect to the enrollment of disabled Medicaid recipients in managed care. These approaches range from simply excluding the SSI population from managed …