The disability pendulum : the first decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act

The disability pendulum : the first decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act / Ruth Colker.

Signed into law in July 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became effective two years later, and court decisions about the law began to multiply in the middle of the decade. In The Disability Pendulum, Ruth Colker presents the first legislative history of the enactment of the ADA in Con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Colker, Ruth (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2005]
Series:Critical America.
Subjects:
United States. > Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 > History > 20th century.
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (United States)
1900 - 1999
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History > 20th century.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : high hope followed by public backlash
  • The ADA's journey through Congress
  • ADA Title I : an empirical investigation
  • The face of judicial backlash
  • ADA Title II : the Supreme Court, the courts of appeals and the states : a swinging pendulum
  • ADA Title III : a fragile compromise
  • Dissing Congress.

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