Abstract
This Article compares current disability jurisprudence with the development of sex equality jurisprudence in the area of discrimination. It demonstrates that current disability law resembles the abandoned, sexist framework for determining sex equality and argues that disability equality cases should receive similar analysis as the more progressive, current sex equality standard. As such, the Article attempts to synthesize case law (l4th Amendment Equal Protection jurisprudence) and statutory law (Title VII and the ADA) into a comprehensive overview of the state of current disability law viewed within the context of discrimination law in general.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2001
Publication Information
35 University of Michigan Journal of Legal Reform 81-136 (2002)
Repository Citation
Silvers, Anita and Stein, Michael Ashley, "Disability, Equal Protection, and the Supreme Court: Standing at the Crossroads of Progressive and Retrogressive Logic in Constitutional Classification" (2001). Faculty Publications. 703.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/703
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