Posted on 05/16/2005 8:10:35 AM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON (AP) --
The Supreme Court said Monday that it will decide if states and counties can be sued for not accommodating disabled prisoners, setting up another legal showdown over the power of Congress to tell states what to do.
The high court ruled seven years ago that a landmark federal civil rights law protects people being held in state prisons.
Since then, however, lower court judges have disagreed over whether states can be sued for damages by prisoners under the Americans With Disabilities Act, a law meant to ensure equal treatment for the disabled in many areas of life.
Supporters of the law contend that the threat of damages is needed to force states to comply.
The Bush administration filed an appeal on behalf of a paraplegic Georgia prisoner, in the case with major implications for states because of the costs of retrofitting old prisons to accommodate people with disabilities.
Justices will consider the case of Tony Goodman, who claims he has been held for more than 23 hours a day in a cell so narrow he cannot turn his wheelchair.
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Accomodate ... perhaps. Sue for damages... NEVER.
Just find out the real dimension of his cell and we'll know the answer.
Or, call Martha...there's a solution for everything.
We need to install elevators in the cell blocks, ramps at the doors and self-opening cell doors for these folks. We also need bigger aisles and someone to fetch their meals.
The ADA act was the biggest farce ever played out in this country and is still costing businesses and the government millions every day. I still get ticked every time I see those short urinals in the bathroom with a puddle of piss under them so that wheelchair bound folks can pee from their chairs. The only ones that could actuallly use the things are those with a 12 inch penis any others couldnt sit and reach them anyway, but they are required.
The short ones are for male children!
Thank you!
You're right.
I was told the short ones were required by an act of the ADA If I am wrong I am sorry. But lets see what the ADA has cost businesses. My friend opened a parts store that had gone out of business prior to his taking over. He had to replace all the doors because they werent wide enough, He had to place the shelves wide so that a parts man in a wheelchair could access them, he had to put ramps in the front of the store. and had to have a handicapped bathroom.
Now he doesnt have a handicapped person working for him but he had to make all these changes just in case he ever did.How many handicapped folks do you see working on their own vehicles.All of this money, part of his working capitol pissed away.How much has it cost Americans to place ramps at every sidewalk intersection that are practically never used.Expensive self-opening doors for one person out of a thousand.The costs runs into billions. The handicapped made out fien until the 70's when this crap started, someone always held the door for them helped them, then someone came up with the idea that it somehow denigrated the handicapped to ask for help and the ADA was born.
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