Weeds Time Machine: The ADA
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The ADA Amendments Act and Disability Rights Law
The ADA defines disability as a person who has a physical or mental impairment, substantially limits one or more major life activities. In the 1990s and early aughts, you saw a number of very bad court opinions, said if someone was controlling their disability effectively, they might not have civil rights protections anymore. So in 2008, Congress passed the ADA Amendments Act, which indicated that the definition of disability should be interpreted broadly. It's been very relevant during COVID, where you've seen people try to assert rights into the ADA for curbside voting.
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