Jill C. Anderson

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Just Semantics: The Lost Readings of the Americans with Disabilities Act

117 Yale L.J. 992 (2008). Disability rights advocates and commentators agree that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has veered far off course from the Act’s mandate of protecting people with actual or perceived disabilities from discrimination. They likewise agree that the fault lies in the language of the statute itself and in the courts’ so-called literalist reading of its...