The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a piece of civil rights legislation designed to protect the rights of people with disabilities. It was passed into law in 1991 and guarantees equal rights ...

My name is Andrew Grossman, and I am Senior Legal Policy Analyst at The Heritage Foundation. The views I express in this testimony are my own, and should not be construed as representing any official ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken, and it''s not looking good for workers who hoped to claim - like a Toyota worker - that their work-related musculoskeletal injuries grant them job protections under ...

Last week, with the backing of big business groups, organized labor, and disability rights groups, the House of Representatives passed an amended version of the ADA [Americans with Disabilities Act] ...

Some reactions to yesterday's Supreme Court ruling from advocates for people with disabilities, employer groups and newspaper editorials appear below, in alphabetical order. Kathleen Blank, an ...

September 25, 2018 marks the tenth anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008, an underappreciated civil rights law that dramatically expanded the number ...

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Wrestler and martial artist Kyle Maynard has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, traveled the world and won an ESPY Award. It may come as a surprise to some people that he’s done all of it, and more, as a ...

An employee's inability to perform his job because of the stress created by the job did not make him an individual with a disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the 2nd ...

A federal district court has dismissed a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit alleging that the ability to contract Ebola is a disability. EEOC sued a Massage Envy franchisee in ...