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- Title
MEANINGFUL ACCESS AND DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND OTHER EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE.
- Authors
Weber, Mark C.
- Abstract
In cases alleging disability discrimination in the provision of state and local government services, courts frequently hold that plaintiffs' claims depend on the question whether, despite the disadvantage that government actions impose, the plaintiffs nevertheless receive meaningful access to the government services. Whether people with disabilities actually have meaningful access is in reality a factual question, one on which social science and other empirically supported facts should matter. But courts frequently ignore evidence about the nature and level of access that people with disabilities have to government programs when decisions regarding those programs are being challenged. This Article catalogues judicial decisions that bypass, or conversely, engage in the empirical inquiry. The Article considers several types of cases, including those concerning limits on government medical assistance, an issue of particular salience in the current political climate. The Article draws the conclusion that the better-reasoned decisions are those that take social science and other relevant evidence seriously in determining whether meaningful access is afforded.
- Subjects
DISABILITY laws; ANTI-discrimination laws; EMPLOYMENT of people with disabilities -- Law &; legislation; DEVELOPMENTAL disability laws; PERSONALITY (Theory of knowledge); LAW
- Publication
Cardozo Law Review, 2017, Vol 39, Issue 2, p650
- ISSN
0270-5192
- Publication type
Article