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Maximizing Potential For Self-Sufficient Living After Board Of Education V Rowley, Elizabeth Drake Apr 1991

Maximizing Potential For Self-Sufficient Living After Board Of Education V Rowley, Elizabeth Drake

In the Public Interest

No abstract provided.


Addiction As Disability: The Protection Of Alcoholics And Drug Addicts Under The Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990, Reese J.J. Henderson Apr 1991

Addiction As Disability: The Protection Of Alcoholics And Drug Addicts Under The Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990, Reese J.J. Henderson

Vanderbilt Law Review

With the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), Congress finally acknowledged that employment discrimination against the disabled continues to be a serious problem in the United States. Approximately forty-three million Americans are disabled. As many as two-thirds of disabled individuals of working age are unemployed, and half of all adults with disabilities have household incomes of fifteen thousand dollars or less. Although most unemployed disabled individuals depend on insurance payments or government benefits for support, polls reveal that a majority would rather work than depend on such assistance. The ADA provides a comprehensive plan for main-streaming …


Law, Culture, And Children With Disabilities: Educational Rights And The Construction Of Difference, David M. Engel Feb 1991

Law, Culture, And Children With Disabilities: Educational Rights And The Construction Of Difference, David M. Engel

Journal Articles

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"Equal Members Of The Community": The Public Accommodations Provisions Of The Americans With Disabilities Act, Robert Burgdorf Jan 1991

"Equal Members Of The Community": The Public Accommodations Provisions Of The Americans With Disabilities Act, Robert Burgdorf

Journal Articles

Nearly three decades ago, four black students sat down at a lunch counter in a Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina, ordered a cup of coffee, and refused to move until they were served. I Unknown to the four young men at the time, their act of courage would help precipitate a series of sit-in protests and other forms of civil disobedience challenging racial segregation at lunch counters, restaurants, parks, hotels, motels, and other facilities. The desegregation of such places was a principal objective of civil rights protests, lawsuits, and proposals for legislative reform during the early 1960s.2 Equal opportunity …


The Americans With Disabilities Act: Analysis And Implications Of A Second-Generation Civil Rights Statute, Robert L. Burgdorf Jr. Jan 1991

The Americans With Disabilities Act: Analysis And Implications Of A Second-Generation Civil Rights Statute, Robert L. Burgdorf Jr.

Journal Articles

Martin Luther King, Jr. once wrote that our nation's civil rights laws were a "sparse and insufficient collection of statutes ... barely a naked framework."' On their faces, many federal civil rights statutes constitute little more than broad directives that "Thou shalt not discriminate." Broadly worded statements outlawing discrimination were the optimal approach to statutory draftsmanship in light of the controversial nature of the civil rights laws passed in the 1960s and 1970s. The drafters of these statutes needed to craft language that would be palatable to a majority of the members of Congress while still having a meaningful impact …


Indigents And The Denial Of Due Process At Involuntary Treatment Hearings: The Need For Independent Psychiatric Assistance, Marcy H. Speiser Jan 1991

Indigents And The Denial Of Due Process At Involuntary Treatment Hearings: The Need For Independent Psychiatric Assistance, Marcy H. Speiser

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Employer's Guide To The Americans With Disabilities Act: From Job Qualifications To Reasonable Accommodations, 24 J. Marshall L. Rev. 693 (1991), Lawrence Postol, David Kadue Jan 1991

Employer's Guide To The Americans With Disabilities Act: From Job Qualifications To Reasonable Accommodations, 24 J. Marshall L. Rev. 693 (1991), Lawrence Postol, David Kadue

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Due Process Jan 1991

Due Process

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.