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Disparate impact dangers
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Robert Detlefsen
City: Washington, State: DC, Country: United States

This article details Nationwide Insurance Company's $13.2 million settlement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. (6/97)

The disabilities of ADA regulations
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: Murray Weidenbaum
Country: United States

"The Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) is a prime example of the shortcomings of government regulation -- even those born out of the best intentions." (12/98)

ADA generates flood of discrimination claims
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

"Critics say the Americans With Disabilities Act is being used as a club against employers by some workers who are filing spurious claims." (1998)

For our children's future, replace affirmative action
Source: National Center for Public Policy Research
Author: David Almasi
Country: United States

Affirmative action is destructive and stands in sharp contrast to a constructive alternative: mentoring programs. (6/16/99)

Survey shows employers win most ADA Title I cases
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

A bar association survey finds that employers prevail more than 95 percent of the time in ADA suits and in 85 percent of the administrative complaints handled by the EEOC. (7/6/00)

Supreme Court rejects broad definition of disabilities
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

In a decision welcomed by many observers, the Supreme Court decided that correctable conditions don't qualify as disabilities under the ADA. Still, the federal government is pushing forward with many dubious cases. (7/6/00)

Employee depression costs employers billions
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

The government gets more disability-act complaints from workers with emotional or psychiatric impairments than from workers with any other kind of disability. The difficulties in identifying such patients and urging them to seek treatment have left employers with an expensive problem. (7/6/00)

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Titles I and V
Source: EEOC
Country: United States

The text of the controversial 1990 law establishing people who can claim a physical or mental disability as a federally protected class. (1990)

Handicapped by a law that helps
Source: Washington Post
Country: United States

"In 1990, I believed the law would help disabled people to become integrated into American life. Today, I'm concerned that abuse of the law is hurting people like me. A huge number of frivolous complaints brought under the ADA in recent years has contributed to the widespread impression that hiring disabled people is an invitation to trouble." (7/26/98)

The third way
Source: Reason magazine
Author: Carolyn Lochhead
Country: United States

"The new politics of gay rights has abandoned the victim-centric posture of the gay left, and the status quo maintenance of the closeted gay right. Instead, what is emerging is a new philosophy of gay advocacy that seeks to strengthen and enrich American culture by visible contribution, rather than radical alteration of its nature." (09/93)

Reparations equals robbery of innocents
Source: Strike the Root
Author: Duke Heberlein
Country: United States

"The point lost on those who favor reparations is that no one group has a monopolistic claim on oppression, period. There can be no claim to the fruits of other's labor because the color of one's skin is similar to people who suffered injustices in the past. This is an evil aim, not a just cause." (03/07/02)

Civil rights and equal opportunity
Source: Joh Locke Foundation
Country: United States
E-mail: info@johnlocke.org

"Affirmative action, originally proposed as a device for extending educational and employment opportunities to minorities and women previously excluded from fair and open competition, has in all too many cases become discrimination itself. The resulting disaffection and anger threatens to pull our society apart at the seams."

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