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Impairment As Protected Status: A New Universality For Disability Rights, Michelle Travis
Impairment As Protected Status: A New Universality For Disability Rights, Michelle Travis
Michelle A. Travis
This Article analyzes the fundamental change to federal civil rights law that Congress accomplished through the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (the "ADAAA"). Congress enacted the ADAAA in response to a series of United States Supreme Court opinions that had narrowly interpreted the definition of disability in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Although many commentators have recognized the ADAAA's intent to restore the class of individuals with disabilities to the breadth that Congress originally intended, this Article argues that the ADAAA accomplished something more significant: it extricated disability from the broader concept of impairment. As a result, the …
Enfeebling The Ada: The Ada Amendments Act Of 2008, Jeffrey D. Jones
Enfeebling The Ada: The Ada Amendments Act Of 2008, Jeffrey D. Jones
Oklahoma Law Review
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