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    The ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–325, ADAAA) is an Act of Congress, effective January 1, 2009, that amended the Americans with Disabilities...
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    September 25, 2008, President George W. Bush signed the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) into law. The amendment broadened the definition of "disability"...
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  • Sutton v. United Air Lines, Inc. (category Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
    with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). The holding of this case was later overturned by the passage of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. Twins Karen Sutton...
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  • Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. Amos, 483 U.S. 327 (1987). "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990,AS AMENDED with ADA Amendments Act of 2008". www.ada.gov...
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    Assistance and Child Welfare Act, 1980 Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ADA Amendments Act of 2008 Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Developmental Disabilities...
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    Act to prohibit discrimination against people based on physical or mental disability. As such, the Democrats pushed as well the ADA Amendments Act of...
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  • Disabilities Act, to prohibit discrimination against people based on physical or mental disability. As such, they pushed the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, a disability-rights...
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    2008 --- Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, Pub.L. 110-314 September 25, 2008 --- ADA Amendments Act of 2008, Pub.L. 110-325 October 3, 2008 —...
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  • and most of these successes have occurred since 2009, after Congress passed the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, which expanded the definitions of disability...
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  • vetoed the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act and 2 other pieces of legislation. During his presidency America...
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    Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer...
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  • and information about youth’s disability." ADA Amendments Act of 2008 Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 Court cases: Flemming v. Nestor Goldberg...
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  • Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) of 1994 The ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) of 2008 In the absence of a unifying federal law requiring paid...
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  • placement, or promotion decisions. 2008 – The ADA Amendments Act of 2008 became law, and it broadened the scope of who is considered disabled under the...
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  • and most of these successes have occurred since 2009, after Congress passed the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, which expanded the definitions of disability...
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    Lex Frieden (category University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston faculty)
    Righting the ADA, that made recommendations leading to enactment of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, and they proposed a UN Convention on the Rights of People...
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    of the Americans with Disabilities Act, saying in a July 26, 2008 address to the Americans with Disabilities Conference that he will support the ADA Amendments...
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  • Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams (category Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
    "reasonable accommodations" as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §12112(b)(5)(A). Upon Toyota's appeal, the District Court...
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  • sanctions, such as loss of funds. Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability by state and...
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    rights bill of the new century." The Act contains amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. In...
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    Chai Feldblum (category Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States)
    perceived sexual orientation. She also worked on passage of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, and has testified before Congress on numerous occasions....
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  • Ari Ne'eman (category American people of Israeli descent)
    disability rights priorities. After the passage of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, Ne'eman was one of a number of advocates specifically recognized by then...
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  • qualified immunity Anti-Injunction Act Magistrates Private right of action Subject-matter jurisdiction Mixed results List of overruled U.S. Supreme Court decisions...
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  • The ADA Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 seems to pick up where the Rehabilitation Act left off. Borrowing from the §504 definition of disabled...
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    Nevertheless, the promises of this and other Reconstruction Amendments went largely unfulfilled for nearly a century thanks to the profusion of racist Jim Crow laws...
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    "Title I of the ADA, which bans employment discrimination by private employers on the basis of disability, parallels Title VII of the Act". Similarly...
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  • Vetoed H.R. 3043, Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2008. Override attempt failed...
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    Mike Simpson (category Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Idaho)
    intent of the 2004 amendments to the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act which continued the existing use and occupancy of commercial services in this corridor of the...
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  • of 1990 - ADA - 42 U.S. Code Chapter 126". finduslaw. Archived from the original on 2011-12-27. Retrieved 2013-02-08. "Civil Rights Act of 1866 & Civil...
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    Arlene B. Mayerson (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    committees of Congress on both the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). Scholar Lennard...
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