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Fifth Circuit Rules on Prisoner’s ADA Claim; Issues Superseding Opinion

On October 14, 2010, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12132, does not abrogate a state’s sovereign immunity when the misconduct complained of does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. In a May 2011 superseding opinion following ...

 

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