All Posts Tagged With: "Americans with Disabilities Act"
The Unseen Costs of Disability Laws
Karen Selick is an attorney in Ontario, Canada, and a columnist for Canadian Lawyer, on which this article is based. Her Web site is www.karenselick.com. Copyright 2000. I first heard of Frédéric Bastiat on graduating from high school, when someone who knew of my plans to become a lawyer gave me a copy of his [...]
1Jun2001 | Karen Selick | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Government’s Assault on Golf
Tour professional Casey Martin cheats at golf. And he does so with the government’s help through a particularly bad federal law and judicial overreach. Since late 1997 Martin has been riding in a golf cart, which is against both the rules of the Professional Golfers Association Tour (PGA Tour) and the 500-year tradition of golf [...]
1Nov2000 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | ContinuedTerms of Impairment
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by President George Bush in 1990 amid much congratulatory hoopla. “Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down,” the President declared. “Every man, woman, and child with a disability can now pass through once-closed doors into a bright new [...]
1Oct1998 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Legal Assault on Competence and Honesty
In October 1993, when Northwest Airlines announced that it had agreed to rehire pilot Norman Prouse as a ground trainer, a company spokesman acknowledged that “some Northwest employees might be bitter.” The reason: three years earlier, Mr. Prouse, after an all-night drinking binge with the two members of his flying crew, had flown a plane [...]
1Oct1997 | David R. Henderson | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Liability Lottery: Politics by Other Means
Mr. Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Liability law, no less than war, has become a continuation of politics by other means. When defeated at the ballot box, interest [...]
1Jun1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Incredible Regulatory Follies
Mr. Reiland is associate professor of economics at Robert Morris College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In a recent Times-Mirror poll, 69 percent of Americans said that government “controls too much of our daily lives.” Seemingly not satisfied that they have alienated the bulk of the adult population, the central planners and bureaucrats are now going after [...]
1Aug1996 | Ralph R. Reiland | 2 comments | Continued-
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