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• Disability Discrimination

Full text:

• H.R. 3195 / S. 1881
  

Summary:

The ADA Restoration Act of 2007 (H.R. 3195; S. 1881) would amend the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to add definitions and rules of construction permitting greater opportunities for recovery than exist under current judicial interpretations allow. The bill’s drafters expressly refer to the following decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court as interpreting the ADA’s protections too narrowly:

• Sutton v. United Airlines, Inc., 527 U.S. 471 (1999);
  
• Murphy v. United Parcel Service, Inc., 527 U.S. 516 (1999);
  
• Albertson's, Inc. v. Kirkingburg, 527 U.S. 555 (1999);and
  
• Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams , 534 U.S. 184 (2002)
  

Amendments in context:

• Changes in the Americans with Disabilities Act proposed by the ADA Restoration Act of 2007