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Meaningful Access And Disability Discrimination: The Role Of Social Science And Other Empirical Evidence, Mark Weber
Meaningful Access And Disability Discrimination: The Role Of Social Science And Other Empirical Evidence, Mark Weber
College of Law Faculty
In cases alleging disability discrimination in the provision of state and local government services, courts frequently hold that plaintiffs’ claims depend on the question whether, despite the disadvantage that government actions impose, the plaintiffs nevertheless receive meaningful access to the government services. Whether people with disabilities actually have meaningful access is in reality a factual question, one on which social science and other empirically supported facts should matter. But courts frequently ignore evidence about the nature and level of access that people with disabilities have to government programs when decisions regarding those programs are being challenged. This Article catalogues judicial …