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Justices Agree to Review Disabilities Act Protections: States Rights at Issue in Calif. Case of Mentally Ill Doctor

Date: November 19, 2002
Author: Charles Lane
QUOTE: ...whether disabled people who feel that they have been discriminated against in the provision of public services can sue state governments, or whether that common method of enforcing the law is prohibited because the Constitution gives the states "sovereign immunity," ....

ABSTRACT: The Supreme Court will soon decide if states have "sovereign immunity" against discrimination lawsuits filed by persons with disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act. If so, enforcement of the federal ADA law could not be enforced against state governments.

--- C. Heimbuch-Skaley

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