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A RE-BIRTH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION: USING THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT TO OVERCOME SECTION 1983 HURDLES AND HOLD GOVERNMENT AND POLICE ACCOUNTABLE

Loaded on July 15, 2007
Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Disabled Prisoners, Blind Prisoners, Medical, HIV/AIDS, Attorney Fee Awards, Attorney Fees (PLRA), Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Physical Injury Rule, Injunctions (PLRA), Damages, Injunctions, Costs, Juries, Expert Witnesses, Trials, Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act, Interpreters, Eleventh Amendment Immunity, Qualified Immunity, Municipal Liability, Contractor Liability, Sovereign Immunity, Failure to Train/Supervise, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides. Location: United States of America.
A RE-BIRTH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION:
USING THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
TO OVERCOME SECTION 1983 HURDLES AND
HOLD GOVERNMENT AND POLICE ACCOUNTABLE

A Review of the Past Seventeen Years

© James C. Harrington*

Federal court decisions in recent years have made civil rights cases more difficult for plaintiffs, and, ...

 

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