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25 Hofstra Lab. & Emp. L. J. 1 (2007-2008)
The Employment Discrimination Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act: Implementation and Impact

handle is hein.journals/hlelj25 and id is 5 raw text is: ARTICLES THE EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION PROVISIONS OF THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACT Scott Burris* & Kathryn Moss** INTRODUCTION Signing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)1 in 1990, President George H. W. Bush described it as a historic new civil rights Act . . . the world's first comprehensive declaration of equality for people with disabilities.,2 Others called it a watershed in the history of disability rights, . . . the most far-reaching legislation ever enacted against discrimination of people with disabilities.,3 A substantial body of disability discrimination laws-including the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,4 the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (now known as the IDEA),5 the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988,6 and * James E. Beasley Professor, Temple University Beasley School of Law; Associate Director, Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities. This article is based on a background paper commissioned for the Institute of Medicine's project Disability in America: A New Look and published in COMMITTEE ON DISABILITY IN AMERICA, THE FUTURE OF DISABILITY IN AMERICA 453-77 (Marilyn J. Field & Alan M. Jette eds., 2007). All opinions expressed in this paper are solely those of the authors. ** Research Professor, School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Research Fellow, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101-12213 (2000). 2. NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY, RIGHTING THE ADA 30 (2004). 3. OFFICE OF TECH. ASSESSMENT, PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITIES, EMPLOYMENT, AND THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT 1 (1994). 4. Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. §§ 701-796 (2000). 5. Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, Pub. L. No. 94-142, 89 Stat. 773

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