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The disability pendulum: the first decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Author:
- COLKER Ruth
- Publisher:
- New York University Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 245p.
- Place of publication:
- New York
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. This book presents the first legislative history of the enactment of the ADA in Congress and analyzes the first decade of judicial decisions under the act. It assesses the success and failure of the first ten years of litigation under the ADA, focusing on its three major titles: employment, public entities, and public accommodations. The book argues that despite an initial atmosphere of bipartisan support with the expectation that the ADA would make a significant difference in the lives of individuals with disabilities, judicial decisions have not been consistent with Congress intentions. The courts have operated like a pendulum, at times swinging to a pro-disabled plaintiff and then back again to a pro-defendant stance. The author, whose work on the ADA has been cited by the Supreme Court, offers practical suggestions on where to amend the act to make it more effective in defending disability rights, and also explains judicial hostility toward enforcing the act.
Disability rights
- Editors:
- BLANCK Peter, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 548p.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
There is great diversity of definitions, causes and consequences of discrimination against persons with disabilities, yet there are fundamental themes uniting countries in their pursuit of human rights policies to improve the social and economic status of those with disabilities. In this volume are twenty-five articles examining historical, contemporary and comparative issues crucial to the advancement of disability rights. The volume foreshadows the future of disability rights as a medium for ensuring that those living with disabilities participate as equal citizens of the world.
Social Focus on Disability 2004
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- The Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 177p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
A guide to receiving direct payments
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Direct Payments
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Scottish Executive response to the report of the Disability Rights Task Force
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Disabled lives: many voices, one message
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation, BBC Education
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 28p.,illus.list of orgs.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Booklet challenging the way disabled people have been devalued and denied the right to a home, a job and a family life. Covers issues such as charities, independent living and the growth of a disability culture.
Rights and wrongs...
- Author:
- HUDSON Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 28.7.88, 1988, pp.86O-861.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Distinguishes between "claim rights" and "moral rights" of handicapped people and the need to clarify practice.
The disability equality duty disabled people's toolkit: for disabled people enquiring about how a public authority has met its duty to promote disability equality
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
This toolkit is for disabled people: As a disabled person you might find that a public authority you have contact with does not have a DES in place, or if it does it may not be meeting its other specific duties under the legislation, or it just isn’t meeting one or more elements of the general duty to promote disability equality. If you think that a public authority is not meeting its duties and you want to find out more information from them this toolkit can help. The toolkit is a series of standard letters which disabled people can use to ask further questions of public authorities they have an interest in. Copies should be kept of all correspondence.
Draft Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: August 2006
- Author:
- UNITED NATIONS. Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
- Publisher:
- United Nations
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Place of publication:
- New York
The purpose of the present Convention is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity. Persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.
A standard bearer for progress
- Author:
- HUBER Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.2.00, 2000, p.18.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Profiles Evelyne Rank-Petruzziello, who has been appointed commissioner on the Disability Rights Commission.