Disability discrimination law
Under federal law, disability discrimination is
prohibited by the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") and the Rehabilitation
Act. Also, with respect to state actors, disability discrimination is prohibited
under the United States Constitution by the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal
Protection Clause.
Garland's Digest has three sources
of information on disability discrimination law: (1) our
treatise; (2) court decisions dating back to September 1996; and
(3) summaries of court decisions from September 1996 to May
2009.
To learn more about disability
discrimination law, the best place to start is our
Treatise Index under the letter "D."
Alternatively, you can search the
Treatise, the cases or the case summaries by going to our
Search Page.
If you are a
non-lawyer and need a basic introduction to legal research, visit our other
site, Introlaw.com, and
read the introductory articles on that site first.
To learn more about Garland's
Digest, visit our About Us page.
If you are not an attorney and you
believe that either (a) you may have a potential discrimination
claim or (b) you are an employer and may have a potential claim
against your company, please consult an attorney in your area.
This web site is designed for lawyers performing legal research
and is no substitute for competent counsel.