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An Act to establish a clear and comprehensive prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability: Acronyms (colloquial) ADA: Nicknames: Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990: Enacted by: the 101st United States Congress: Effective: July 26, 1990: Citations; Public law: 101-336: Statutes at Large: 104 Stat. 327: Codification; Titles amended
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 states (in part): . No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States, as defined in section 705(20) of this title, shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial ...
The Supreme Court called disability discrimination rational in that hiring non-disabled employees would conserve scarce financial resources by avoiding the need for costly reasonable accommodations: "whereas it would be entirely rational (and therefore constitutional) for a state employer to conserve scarce financial resources by hiring ...
The regulations implementing Section 504 in the context of educational institutions appear at 34 C.F.R. Part 104 D. [47] §504 applies to all programs or activities, including schools, that receive federal financial assistance. See 29 U.S.C. 794(b)(2)(B) (defining "program or activity" to include the operations of "local educational agenc[ies]").
Within the framework established under the Rehabilitation Act, courts treated the determination of disability as a threshold issue, but focused primarily on whether unlawful discrimination had occurred. After the passage of the ADA, the focus of court decisions shifted to deciding if people's claims of discrimination were protected by the law.
Former ‘Talk Stoop’ host Cat Greenleaf has filed a disability discrimination lawsuit against NBCUniversal, LX.TV, and Meredith McGinn, the senior vice president of LX.TV, reports Page Six.
Models of disability are analytic tools in disability studies used to articulate different ways disability is conceptualized by individuals and society broadly. [1] [2] Disability models are useful for understanding disagreements over disability policy, [2] teaching people about ableism, [3] providing disability-responsive health care, [3] and articulating the life experiences of disabled people.
[3]: 12, 21 The EEOC investigates discrimination complaints based on an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, pregnancy, and gender identity), age, disability, genetic information, and retaliation for participating in a discrimination complaint proceeding and/or opposing a discriminatory practice.