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The article focuses on the apology issued by American Multi-Cinema Theaters to civil-rights leader William J. Barber II after being escorted from a North Carolina theater for attempting to use a chair to manage a medical condition, discrimination, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The article offers information on the 25th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act in the U.S.

The article reports that a blind man, Emanuel Delacruz has filed a case against Hofstra University on Long Island, New York as he was not able to access the university's website which comes under violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act.

The article reports on the lawsuit filed against the New York City for violation of federal laws including the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, regarding the rights of parents with intellectual disabilities and bias behavior from child welfare agencies.

The article reports that according to a report by a workers' advocacy group Walmart routinely refuses to accept doctors' notes, and penalizes workers who need to take care of a sick family member and notes allegations of violation of Americans with Disabilities Act as of June 2017.

The article reports on an investigation by the office of Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, which reveals that more than 80 percent of public elementary schools in New York City, New York are in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act.

The article focuses on a federal investigation which reveals public elementary school in New York City are not accessible for children with disabilities in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act along with views of Harry Hartfield, a spokesman for the U.S. Education Department, on it.

The author discusses the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act (A.D.A), wherein it gave access and dignity to people with disabilities in the U.S.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Dole Appears, but G.O.P. Rejects a Disabilities Treaty" in the December 5, 2012 issue.

INDIANAPOLIS -- It's a case of King Solomon meets the Americans With Disabilities Act. In her first week at a new job, Emily Kysel suffered an allergy attack so severe that she had to go home early one day. A co-worker was eating buffalo wings at her desk, and the wings contained paprika, to which Ms. Kysel, 24, has a rare and potentially fatal allergy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Bush administration is about to propose far-reaching new rules that would give people with disabilities greater access to tens of thousands of courtrooms, swimming pools, golf courses, stadiums, theaters, hotels and retail stores. The proposal would substantially update and rewrite federal standards for enforcement of the Americans With Disabilities Act, a landmark civil rights law passed with strong bipartisan support in 1990. The new rules would set more stringent requirements in many areas and address some issues for the first time, in an effort to meet the needs of an aging population and growing numbers of disabled war veterans. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information on the Americans With Disabilities Act with reference to business travelers with disabilities in the U.S. The act prohibits employers from discriminating against people with disabilities. The travel industry is improving its services for the customer with disabilities. Wheelchairs and crutches are offered to the disabled business travelers to navigate airports.

The author discusses how Republican Party embraces freedom of capacity and freedom as detachment when it functioned as governing party and mentions how former U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990.

The article reports on the court-approved agreement known as a consent decree that would free people with developmental and intellectual disabilities in Rhode Island from obtaining better jobs. It states that the agreement was announced by the U.S. Justice Department on April 8, 2014. It outlines some of the elements that need to be revised to resolve violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act including support for nonwork activities and redirecting public funds.

The author outlines the flaws of environmental-friendly medical center in providing quality services to older people including lack of arm support in chairs and failure to provide accessibility medical center information in accordance to the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).

The United States attorney's office in Manhattan has opened an investigation into whether the lack of wheelchair-accessible taxicabs in New York City amounts to a violation of parts of the Americans With Disabilities Act. The investigation, revealed on Monday in letters mailed to city lawyers and owners of taxi medallions, could result in the federal government's bringing a civil case against the Taxi and Limousine Commission, which regulates which vehicles can be used as taxicabs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the number of shelters provided to people with disabilities in Brooklyn, New York. Topics discussed include letter sent by public advocate Letitia James to the Justice Department asking for an investigation for the widespread violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act, discrimination against homeless people for their disabilities, and the view of commissioner Steven Banks against the city's welfare agency.

The article focuses on the Supreme Court's dismissal of a dispute over a disabled woman, Deborah Laufer, suing hotels for violating disability laws by not providing accessibility information on their websites, as the woman systematically searched for non-compliant hotels.

A small cadre of lawyers, some from out of state, are using New York City's age and architectural quirkiness as the foundation for a flood of lawsuits citing violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act. The lawyers are generally not acting on existing complaints from people with disabilities. Instead, they identify local businesses, like bagel shops and delis, that are not in compliance with the law, and then aggressively recruit plaintiffs from advocacy groups for people with disabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Sears Roebuck & Company had agreed to a $6.2 million settlement in a case under the Americans with Disabilities Act. A federal court judge approved a consent decree in the case, in which Sears was accused of firing employees instead of providing reasonable accommodations for them. In a statement, the commission said the settlement was the largest ever among the disability-related cases it had handled. Agency lawyers said they had found more than 100 cases of Sears employees who sought to return to work with an accommodation and were fired. A spokeswoman for Sears, Kimberly Freely, said that although the company ''continues to believe that it reasonably accommodates'' employees on leave because of work-related injuries or illnesses, it settled the case because the legal proceedings could have taken another five years and ''considerable expense'' to resolve. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information on the increasing number of rehabilitation centers (rehabs) in Malibu, California. It states that the local community of Malibu is not happy with increasing rehabs in the city. It mentions that Malibu has 26 licensed rehabs, including Passages Malibu and Promises Treatment Center. The U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the California law, states that rehabs with six-beds or less must be treated as single-family homes.

This article examines health clubs in the light of their use by the disabled. Fitness clubs willing to accept a disabled member are hard to find and wheelchair access is often limited as the majority of health clubs are in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. The article outlines plans to make health clubs comply with the legislation.

Focuses on Janice Schacter of New York City, mother of 10-year-old Arielle, who has moderate-to-severe hearing loss, a disability that has often confounded or been ignored by cultural institutions. Schacter's criticism of the way institutions have interpreted the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 as it pertains to people with hearing loss; Comments of Schacter; How frustration turned her into an activist; Background on Schacter; How she has helped raise the consciousness to a different level; Schacter's introduction of neck loops, devices that connect audio guides to hearing aids, at the American Museum of Natural History.

Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center will become more accessible to people with disabilities under a court settlement reached Wednesday between the performing arts center and the United States attorney's office in Manhattan. Civil rights investigators for the office had brought a lawsuit against Lincoln Center for failing to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 at Avery Fisher, home to the New York Philharmonic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It may be the least-publicized revolution of our time but the one whose impact ultimately reaches the furthest, affecting the way our buildings and buses are built, the way our schools are structured, the way our businesses conduct hiring and outfit their work stations. It's the disability-rights movement, and ''Lives Worth Living,'' a Thursday ''Independent Lens'' on PBS, reconstructs how it emerged and eventually pushed through the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. The film opens with images from the past that are chillingly grim, especially those from the Willowbrook State School for children with intellectual disabilities on Staten Island, a nightmarish place exposed by, among others, a young television reporter named Geraldo Rivera in 1972. (Recent headlines have made clear that, four decades later, such problems persist in some places.) ''There was a belief,'' Ann Ford, director of the Illinois chapter of the National Council on Independent Living, says bluntly, ''that if you had a disability, you didn't have any desire to live a life.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After eight years of the Bush administration using the power of the Justice Department to undermine civil rights laws, it is good to see the department applying one of those laws, the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. It has started a timely new initiative aimed at full enforcement of that law, which forbids unjustified isolation of the mentally disabled and requires that they be integrated into the wider community where appropriate. The initiative is having its coming-out party in New York, where Justice Department lawyers are seeking to intervene in a closely watched federal lawsuit involving thousands of mentally ill people being held in privately run adult homes. A federal judge recently described them as ''even more restrictive or 'institutional' than psychiatric hospitals'' that they were intended to replace. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It was not that long ago that mentally ill people, even those who were capable of living independently, were locked away by the tens of thousands in notoriously primitive hospitals. Congress passed the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, which forbids arbitrary and unjustified isolation of the mentally ill and requires the states to treat them in community-based settings in cases where this treatment is appropriate. A federal court ruling in New York last week shows that mentally ill people are still being illegally warehoused, this time in smaller, but still horrifyingly inadequate for-profit adult homes. Judge Nicholas Garaufis ruled that the state had violated federal disability law by confining more than 4,000 mentally ill people in privately run adult homes that he described as ''even more restrictive or 'institutional' than psychiatric hospitals.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, requiring cruise ships to follow the accessibility standards set by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Discusses how telecommuting has helped the disabled remain gainfully employed in the United States. Impact of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990; Statistics on employed people with disabilities; Views of Robert O'Bryne, a senior applications specialist for New York Life and a quadriplegic, and Janet Pearce, a producer at NBC News who has muscular sclerosis; Details of when it is necessary for companies to offer telecommuting options to employees with disabilities.

Discusses several cases in the United States which invoked various definitions of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990.

Addresses an ordinance proposed by the Taxi and Limousine Commission of New York City that would provide wheelchair accessibility for public transportation. Impact seen by the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990; How the ordinance will change not only public transportation but traffic in general in the city; Expectations for the ordinance.

Discusses the ruling in the United States on isolating people with disabilities in big state institutions. How the ruling violates the federa; disabilities law; Details on the case filed against the State of Georgia by two women with mental impairment; Information on the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990; Details on the 1995 lawsuit filed on behalf of Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson.

Comments on the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 and its impact on the American work place. Feature of `reasonable accommodation' in the law; Definition of the term `disability'; Employment provisions of the law; Use of the law by employees to bring a discrimination claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Looks at the US Equal Opportunity Employment Commission's April 1997 clarification of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). The clarification mandating that qualified workers with mental illness cannot be discriminated against; Explanation of the concept of parity; Skepticism about the clarification; Examples of how an employer would decide whether an employee has a psychiatric disability that must be accommodated. INSET: What to do when the limousine driver is manic-depressive..

Relates that the United States government told employers on April 30, 1997 that they may not discriminate against qualified workers with mental illness and must take reasonable steps to accommodate employees with psychiatric or emotional problems. The guidance, issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to carry out the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990; How until now the government focused on physical disabilities.

States that a federal law (Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990) that takes effect in July will provide far-reaching employment rights to the mentally ill, requiring most businesses to alter hiring practices and workplace conditions. It is expected that the law will diminish the stigma of mental illness and reduce discrimination involving millions of Americans.

Provides information on how the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 has been implemented at Sears, Roebuck & Company. Reported in a study by Peter D. Blanck, psychologist at the University of Iowa; Information on the course for female executives at the Summer Executive Institute on Women and Leadership at Stanford University; More.

Examines how an increasing number of AIDS sufferers are accusing their health insurance plans of discrimination forbidden under the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. Several dozen cases have been filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Health insurance groups are taking advantage of federal court rulings that allow some groups to deny or limit coverage for expensive diseases. Details.

The article reports on lawsuits against New York City art galleries over the accessibility of websites to blind people. Topics discussed include the view that the suits are either salvos for civil rights or a way for lawyers to scrape the internet for a quick paycheck, background of the two New York lawyers who are suing the galleries, Joseph NH. Mizrahi and Jeffrey M. Gottlieb, and the statement by courts that the Americans With Disabilities Act applies to websites.

Presents several articles pertaining to the rulings of the United States (US) Supreme Court regarding different cases. Agreement of the Supreme Court to clarify the law on leniency for refugees who seek to remain in the US despite having committed crimes in their home countries; Relationship between the Americans With Disabilities Act and receipt of Social Security disability benefits; Reporters' access; Drug testing.