The Disability Pendulum: The First Decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act.(Book review) From: Trial | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 American Association for Justice. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Disability Pendulum Ruth Colker New York University Press www.nyupress.org 245 pp., $45

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) went into effect in July 1992. In The Disability Pendulum, Ruth Colker, a noted disability scholar, discusses the act's legislative history and analyzes the first 10 years of litigation involving it. She high lights the irony that this "boldly pro-plaintiff piece of legislation" has been so narrowly interpreted that it protects only a small percentage of the 43 million disabled Americans described in its preamble, and she concludes that initial ...

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