Supreme Court shows lack of understanding of ADA
The Supreme Court, in its June 22 decisions on three employment cases under the Americans with Disabilities Act, has ignored the extensive legislative history of the law and has chosen to set limits on the number of us who can claim its protections.
Justice John Paul Stevens, writing the dissent in case Sutton v. United Air Lines, Inc., refers to the court's "crabbed vision of the territory covered by this important statute" and suggests that "the court has been cowed" by the "persistent argument," which has been a constant refrain in stories about the ADA, that a "generous" construction of the law "will lead to a tidal wave of lawsuits."