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"Equal Members Of The Community": The Public Accommodations Provisions Of The Americans With Disabilities Act, Robert Burgdorf
"Equal Members Of The Community": The Public Accommodations Provisions Of The Americans With Disabilities Act, Robert Burgdorf
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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.
The Americans With Disabilities Act: Analysis And Implications Of A Second-Generation Civil Rights Statute, Robert L. Burgdorf Jr.
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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 …
Flimsy Precedent And Narrow Vision: A Call For Congressional Amendment Of Title Vii And The Ada In Response To Boureslan, Monique C. Lillard
Flimsy Precedent And Narrow Vision: A Call For Congressional Amendment Of Title Vii And The Ada In Response To Boureslan, Monique C. Lillard
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