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Rape Of The Mentally Deficient: Satisfaction Of The Nonconsent Element, 15 J. Marshall L. Rev. 115 (1982), Susan Brody
Rape Of The Mentally Deficient: Satisfaction Of The Nonconsent Element, 15 J. Marshall L. Rev. 115 (1982), Susan Brody
Susan L. Brody
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The Present King Of France Is Feeble-Minded: The Logic And History Of The Continuum Of Placements For People With Intellectual Disabilities, Philip Ferguson
The Present King Of France Is Feeble-Minded: The Logic And History Of The Continuum Of Placements For People With Intellectual Disabilities, Philip Ferguson
Philip M. Ferguson
This chapter focuses on the logic and history of the continuum of placements for people with intellectual disabilities.
Disqualifiying Universality Under The Americans With Disabilities Act Amendments Act, Michelle Travis
Disqualifiying Universality Under The Americans With Disabilities Act Amendments Act, Michelle Travis
Michelle A. Travis
This Article reveals a new resistance strategy to disability rights in the workplace. The initial backlash against the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) targeted protected class status by characterizing the ADA's accommodation mandate as special treatment that benefitted the disabled at the expense of the nondisabled workforce. As a result, federal courts treated the ADA as a welfare statute rather than a civil rights law, which resulted in the Supreme Court dramatically narrowing the definition of disability. Congress responded with sweeping amendments in 2008 to expand the class of individuals with disabilities who are entitled to accommodations and …