Author: Linda Hamilton Krieger
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472025497
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years of the Act's effective date, however, observers were warning of an unfolding assault on the ADA by federal judges, the media, and other national opinion-makers. A year after the Supreme Court issued a trio of decisions in the summer of 1999 sharply limiting the ADA's reach, another decision invalidated an entire title of the act as it applied to the states. By this time, 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 1990s? In this book, a distinguished group of disability activists, disability rights lawyers, social scientists and humanities scholars grapple with these questions. Taken together, these essays construct and illustrate a new and powerful theoretical model of sociolegal change and retrenchment that can inform both the conceptual and theoretical work of scholars and the day-to-day practice of social justice activists. Contributors include Lennard J. Davis, Matthew Diller, Harlan Hahn, Linda Hamilton Krieger, Vicki A. Laden, Stephen L. Percy, Marta Russell, and Gregory Schwartz. Backlash Against the ADA will interest disability rights activists, lawyers, law students and legal scholars interested in social justice and social change movements, and students and scholars in disability studies, political science, media studies, American studies, social movement theory, and legal history. Linda Hamilton Krieger is Professor of Law, University of California School of Law, Berkeley.
Backlash Against the ADA
Author: Linda Hamilton Krieger
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472025497
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years of the Act's effective date, however, observers were warning of an unfolding assault on the ADA by federal judges, the media, and other national opinion-makers. A year after the Supreme Court issued a trio of decisions in the summer of 1999 sharply limiting the ADA's reach, another decision invalidated an entire title of the act as it applied to the states. By this time, 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 1990s? In this book, a distinguished group of disability activists, disability rights lawyers, social scientists and humanities scholars grapple with these questions. Taken together, these essays construct and illustrate a new and powerful theoretical model of sociolegal change and retrenchment that can inform both the conceptual and theoretical work of scholars and the day-to-day practice of social justice activists. Contributors include Lennard J. Davis, Matthew Diller, Harlan Hahn, Linda Hamilton Krieger, Vicki A. Laden, Stephen L. Percy, Marta Russell, and Gregory Schwartz. Backlash Against the ADA will interest disability rights activists, lawyers, law students and legal scholars interested in social justice and social change movements, and students and scholars in disability studies, political science, media studies, American studies, social movement theory, and legal history. Linda Hamilton Krieger is Professor of Law, University of California School of Law, Berkeley.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472025497
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years of the Act's effective date, however, observers were warning of an unfolding assault on the ADA by federal judges, the media, and other national opinion-makers. A year after the Supreme Court issued a trio of decisions in the summer of 1999 sharply limiting the ADA's reach, another decision invalidated an entire title of the act as it applied to the states. By this time, 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 1990s? In this book, a distinguished group of disability activists, disability rights lawyers, social scientists and humanities scholars grapple with these questions. Taken together, these essays construct and illustrate a new and powerful theoretical model of sociolegal change and retrenchment that can inform both the conceptual and theoretical work of scholars and the day-to-day practice of social justice activists. Contributors include Lennard J. Davis, Matthew Diller, Harlan Hahn, Linda Hamilton Krieger, Vicki A. Laden, Stephen L. Percy, Marta Russell, and Gregory Schwartz. Backlash Against the ADA will interest disability rights activists, lawyers, law students and legal scholars interested in social justice and social change movements, and students and scholars in disability studies, political science, media studies, American studies, social movement theory, and legal history. Linda Hamilton Krieger is Professor of Law, University of California School of Law, Berkeley.
Backlash Against the ADA
Backlash Against the ADA
Author: Linda Hamilton Krieger
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047202549X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years of the Act's effective date, however, observers were warning of an unfolding assault on the ADA by federal judges, the media, and other national opinion-makers. A year after the Supreme Court issued a trio of decisions in the summer of 1999 sharply limiting the ADA's reach, another decision invalidated an entire title of the act as it applied to the states. By this time, 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 1990s? In this book, a distinguished group of disability activists, disability rights lawyers, social scientists and humanities scholars grapple with these questions. Taken together, these essays construct and illustrate a new and powerful theoretical model of sociolegal change and retrenchment that can inform both the conceptual and theoretical work of scholars and the day-to-day practice of social justice activists. Contributors include Lennard J. Davis, Matthew Diller, Harlan Hahn, Linda Hamilton Krieger, Vicki A. Laden, Stephen L. Percy, Marta Russell, and Gregory Schwartz. Backlash Against the ADA will interest disability rights activists, lawyers, law students and legal scholars interested in social justice and social change movements, and students and scholars in disability studies, political science, media studies, American studies, social movement theory, and legal history. Linda Hamilton Krieger is Professor of Law, University of California School of Law, Berkeley.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047202549X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years of the Act's effective date, however, observers were warning of an unfolding assault on the ADA by federal judges, the media, and other national opinion-makers. A year after the Supreme Court issued a trio of decisions in the summer of 1999 sharply limiting the ADA's reach, another decision invalidated an entire title of the act as it applied to the states. By this time, 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 1990s? In this book, a distinguished group of disability activists, disability rights lawyers, social scientists and humanities scholars grapple with these questions. Taken together, these essays construct and illustrate a new and powerful theoretical model of sociolegal change and retrenchment that can inform both the conceptual and theoretical work of scholars and the day-to-day practice of social justice activists. Contributors include Lennard J. Davis, Matthew Diller, Harlan Hahn, Linda Hamilton Krieger, Vicki A. Laden, Stephen L. Percy, Marta Russell, and Gregory Schwartz. Backlash Against the ADA will interest disability rights activists, lawyers, law students and legal scholars interested in social justice and social change movements, and students and scholars in disability studies, political science, media studies, American studies, social movement theory, and legal history. Linda Hamilton Krieger is Professor of Law, University of California School of Law, Berkeley.
Rights of the Disabled
Author: David M. Haugen
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438100205
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Provides an overview, chronology of events, glossary and annotated bibliography for disability rights in the United States.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438100205
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Provides an overview, chronology of events, glossary and annotated bibliography for disability rights in the United States.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Author: Nancy Lee Jones
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590336632
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) enacted on 16 July 1990, provides broad non-discrimination protection for individuals with disabilities in employment, public accommodations and services operated by public entities, transportation, and telecommunications. This book summarises the major provisions of the act as amended and discusses recent issues including rules, Supreme Court decisions, regulations and information sources.
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590336632
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) enacted on 16 July 1990, provides broad non-discrimination protection for individuals with disabilities in employment, public accommodations and services operated by public entities, transportation, and telecommunications. This book summarises the major provisions of the act as amended and discusses recent issues including rules, Supreme Court decisions, regulations and information sources.
The Disability Pendulum
Author: Ruth Colker
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814716458
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Disability Pendulum chronicles societal views and court reactions to the evolving ADA.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814716458
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Disability Pendulum chronicles societal views and court reactions to the evolving ADA.
Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act
Author: William D. Goren
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590317655
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This book, written from the perspective of a lawyer with a disability (the author is hearing impaired), demonstrates that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is not just a law, but a way of life. It also discusses preventive lawyering with regards to the ADA. Since the first edition was published, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided over a dozen cases on the ADA and there have also been many appellate decisions as well. In this second edition, the Supreme Court decisions not included in the first edition and some of the appellate opinions that have come down since then are analyzed to provide the reader with an understanding of the workings of the ADA as it exists today.
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590317655
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This book, written from the perspective of a lawyer with a disability (the author is hearing impaired), demonstrates that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is not just a law, but a way of life. It also discusses preventive lawyering with regards to the ADA. Since the first edition was published, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided over a dozen cases on the ADA and there have also been many appellate decisions as well. In this second edition, the Supreme Court decisions not included in the first edition and some of the appellate opinions that have come down since then are analyzed to provide the reader with an understanding of the workings of the ADA as it exists today.
Helping Employers Comply with the ADA
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans with Disabilities Act
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans with Disabilities Act
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Americans with Disabilities Act
Author: National Council on Disability (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Americans with Disabilities Act
Author: Susan Dudley Gold
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1608703401
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Takes a behind the scenes look to show the drama that led to the Americans with Disabilities Act being passed and the effect this piece of legislation has had in the development of our country.
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1608703401
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Takes a behind the scenes look to show the drama that led to the Americans with Disabilities Act being passed and the effect this piece of legislation has had in the development of our country.