Posted on 07/28/2020 9:37:54 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Home | Politics Tags: orrin hatch | ada | disabilities | act | lawsuits Orrin Hatch: Future of Americans With Disabilities Act 'Uncertain' former Sen. Orrin Hatch is seen in a pinstriped suit at a judiciary committee confirmation hearing Former Sen. Orrin Hatch (Tom Williams/CQ roll Call via AP) By Theodore Bunker | Monday, 27 July 2020 10:27 AM
Short URL|Email Article|Comment|Contact|Print| A A The Americans with Disabilities Act has come under threat from “drive-by lawsuits,” that “target mom-and-pop shops searching for any sign of noncompliance,” former Sen. Orrin Hatch wrote in an opinion piece for USA Today on Monday.
The Utah Republican, who went across the aisle to work with Democrats to pass the ADA about 30 years ago, wrote about the importance of securing the law’s “legacy for the next 30 years. This will require nurturing the partnership between business owners and persons with disabilities that helped lift the ADA across the finish line.”
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Good for you, now go back to being retired.
I dunno, I’d take him over Mitt Romney in a heartbeat.
I’m fine with gutting the ADA.
Wouldn’t we all.
Frivolous lawsuits have always been a threat to small businesses that can’t afford to fight them. It’s not just the ADA that is used as a launching pad for them. Tort reform is badly needed.
The ADA is an object lesson in what happens with good intentions and Leftism.
Most people would agree with many of the fundamental tenets, but when it was put into action, it was quick, extensively, and over years used as a cudgel to shape behavior both personal and corporate in ways that had zero to do with disabilities.
If you ever want to see how a well meaning tool can be misused in a malicious way, look at the ADA.
Yes. Tort reform is LONG overdue.
Thanks to the ADA and HIPAA I can tell stores I have a medical condition that precludes me from wearing a mask and they can’t force me to tell them what it is. :)
Thanks to HIPAA I can tell stores I have a medical condition that precludes me from wearing a mask and they can’t force me to tell them what it is. :)
Thanks to the ADA they can’t keep me out of the store. :)
Fun Dip Orrin Hatch.
Me too, and I happen to be disabled.
What partnership? The government was always the one with the big stick here.
The ADA actually created the opposite effect of its original intention to have more disabled people employed. Employers were not stupid and came to realize if they hired a disabled person they were also taking on the risk of being sued by the Feds under the ADA act if the disabled person was not up to the job and they had to terminate him. There is less of a percent of disabled people in the work force now after the ADA than before. Get rid of it.
“Orrin Hatch: Future of Americans With Disabilities Act ‘Uncertain”
That should be...”Future of Americans Uncertain”
The ADA, signed into law by Establishmentarian and non-conservative Bush the Elder, was a massive power grab by the federal government. If we cannot trust states even to make good decisions about the allocation of parking spots, then we might as well replace elected state governments with appointed federal bureaucrats.
Dumbass internet post award winner of the day, to you FRiend!
Anyone (like me) who is destined to live out their remaining years in a wheelchair find the ADA to be a valuable, yet imperfect, Godsend. It has set the USA apart from most of the developed world in terms of access to many buildings and events, and has given us the dignity of being able to find a restroom in (most) public places that we can go into to relieve ourselves, instead of wetting our diapers, or worse; much worse.
I am sorry about your disability, but opposing the politically-motivated money pit that ADA has become is not the same as denying those like yourself reasonable access to facilities.
And I do take offense at your characterization of my point.
Why would anyone be in favor of giving more power to lawyers? Ara is not the only thing that needs to be gutted butvit is a start
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