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Backlash against the ADA : reinterpreting disability rights

For civil rights lawyers who had toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the seemingly charmed passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act through the U.S. House and Senate and across a Republican president's desk in 1990 seemed almost fantastical. Not long after the act's effective date, however, members of the disability community began to voice fears of an unfolding assault on the ADA by federal judges, the media, and other national opinion makers. After the Supreme Court issued decisions sharply limiting the ADA's reach, followed by a decision the following summer invalidating an entire title of the act as it applied to the states, disability activists and disability rights lawyers were speaking openly of a backlash against the ADA. What happened, why did it happen, and what can we learn from the patterns of public, media, and judicial response to the ADA that emerged in the past decade? In this book, a distinguished group of disability
Print Book, English, ©2003
The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©2003
History
408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780472098255, 9780472068258, 047209825X, 0472068253
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<h3>Contents</h3> <pre> Introduction Linda Hamilton Krieger............................................................................................................................................................1 Accommodations and the ADA Unreasonable Bias or Biased Reasoning? Harlan Hahn.................................................................................................................26 Judicial Backlash, the ADA, and the Civil Rights Model of Disability Matthew Diller............................................................................................................62 Bending Over Backwards Disability, Narcissism, and the Law Lennard J. Davis...................................................................................................................98 Plain Meaning and Mitigating Measures Judicial Construction of the Meaning of Disability Wendy E. Parmet......................................................................................122 The ADA and the Meaning of Disability Kay Schriner and Richard K. Scotch.......................................................................................................................164 Psychiatric Disabilities, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the New Workplace Violence Account Vicki A. Laden and Gregory Schwartz......................................................189 From Plessy (1896) and Goesart (1948) to Cleburne (1985) and Garrett (2001) A Chill Wind from the Past Blows Equal Protection Away Anita Silvers and Michael Ashley Stein.....................221 Backlash, the Political Economy, and Structural Exclusion Marta Russell........................................................................................................................254 Administrative Remedies and Legal Disputes Evidence on Key Controversies Underlying Implementation of theAmericans with Disabilities Act Stephen L. Percy.....................................297 The Death of Section 504 Ruth Colker...........................................................................................................................................................323 Sociolegal Backlash Linda Hamilton Krieger.....................................................................................................................................................340 Contributors....................................................................................................................................................................................395 Index...........................................................................................................................................................................................399 </pre>
Includes index