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41 Brandeis L.J. 769 (2002-2003)
Reclaiming the Vision: The ADA and Definition of Disability

handle is hein.journals/branlaj41 and id is 779 raw text is: RECLAIMING THE VISION: THE ADA AND DEFINITION OF DISABILITY* Commissioner Paul Steven Miller** INTRODUCTION Thank you for the privilege of allowing me to present remarks at this year's Carl Warns Labor and Employment Law Institute program. Although I never knew Professor Warns, I think I would have liked him very much. He was a dedicated teacher and scholar, a champion of labor and employment law in this community, and tirelessly committed to improving worker-management relations by advocating for the dignity of work and the workplace. It is a pleasure for me to be here. I also particularly want to thank my good friend, Dean Laura Rothstein, for inviting me. THE ADA HAS RECEIVED MUCH JUDICIAL ATrENTION Over the past several years, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the newest of the United State's civil rights statutes, has received a tremendous amount of attention in the courtrooms, as well as in the press. During the last decade, courts throughout the country, including the United States Supreme Court, have grappled with its provisions in order to help reduce discrimination in the workplace faced by people with disabilities. More cases appear on the Supreme Court's docket this term, and we all look forward to receiving additional guidance from the Justices on the application of this important law. In fact, thus far this term, the Supreme Court has issued three ADA opinions, and we are awaiting decisions in two more cases. Despite this attention and activity, more than twenty-five years after enactment of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and more than a decade The Carl A. Warns Jr. Lecture on Labor and Employment, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky, June 6, 2002. Commissioner, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. J.D., Harvard University; B.A., University of Pennsylvania. This article was written by Mr. Miller in his private capacity. No official support or endorsement by the EEOC or any other agency of the U.S. government is intended or should be inferred.

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