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4 U. San Fernando Valley L. Rev. 161 (1975)
Crips United to Enforce Symbolic Laws: Legal Aid for the Disabled: An Overview

handle is hein.journals/sfernvlr4 and id is 161 raw text is: UNIVERSITY OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY LAW REVIEW VOLUME 4, NUMBER 2 FALL, 1975 CRIPS UNITE TO ENFORCE SYMBOLIC LAWS:1 LEGAL AID FOR THE DISABLED: AN OVERVIEW2 Jack A chtenberg* INTRODUCTION To what extent do the legal right, the public approval, and the physical capacity coincide? Does the law assure the physically disabled, to the degree that they are physi- cally able to take advantage of it, the right to leave their institutions, asylums, and the houses of their relatives? Once they emerge, must they remain on the front porch, or do they have the right to be in public places, to go about in the streets, sidewalks, roads and highways, to ride upon trains, buses, airplanes, and taxi cabs, and to enter and to receive goods and services in hotels, restaur- ants, and other places of public accommodation? If so, * Member of the California and Federal Bars, A.B., J.D., L.L.M., J.S.D. Candidate (thesis entitled A Study in Federal, State, and Local Government Law: Effective Enforcement Techniques to Protect the Rights of the Elderly and the Physically Handicapped); professor of Law at the University of San Fer- nando Valley College of Law, Sepulveda, California. 1. The author means by Symbolic Laws those laws that are passed to placate certain pressure groups without much intention to enforce them. 2. This article is primarily intended to bring together most of the legally significant information regarding the physically disabled, rather than to provide an in-depth analysis of their legal problems. With the exception of the material on class actions, the text is written to be understood by those in the movement as well as interested laymen and lawyers with no particular background in the laws dealing with the handicapped. This article is also intended to serve the following purposes: (a) To provide justification for funding numerous legal aid societies for the

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