By David M Haugen
Offers an outline of the critiques surrounding rights of the disabled that diversity from the formation of the League of the bodily Handicapped in 1935 to numerous efforts to augment and adjust the american citizens with Disabilities Act.
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In 1981, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals agreed. Mirroring the Davis terminology, the court concluded that the regulations placed undue financial burdens on transit systems. The Department of Transportation was directed to revise its regulations. It did so not only in the spirit of court mandate, but also in tune with the directives of the country’s newly elected president, Ronald Reagan. Only three months before the conclusion of the APTA case, Reagan had signed Executive Order 12291, which compelled all federal agencies to make a cost-benefit analysis of any proposed regulations and opt for the least expensive means of achieving the desired result.
The Pennsylvania District Court that heard the case, however, maintained that the “local option” stipulation was valid. A follow-up case argued in 1989 before the Third Circuit Court of Philadelphia (ADAPT v. ”33 Both the district and circuit courts, however, found in the same judgments that the 3 percent budgetary limit was capricious and could not hope to serve the needs of disabled riders in small cities where budgets would be likewise small. Therefore, the Department of Transportation was forced again to amend its Section 504 regulations, leaving the decision a mixed blessing for the disability rights community.
As a collective undertaking it lacked the defin- Introduction to Disability Rights in America ing elements of most successful movements in history. , to bring it together, no Betty Friedan to write its manifesto. It had no unifying touchstone moment of courage or anger like the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Freedom rides, or the Stonewall riots. . ”42 Yet for being “invisible,” the movement that pressed for the ADA was manifold. ”43 Having such outsider groups represented helped lend credence to the notion that civil rights were at stake.