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2/12/99, 8:49 amcst
Will Georgia's Olmstead vs. LC & EW be the "Dred Scott Decision" for People with Disabilities?
Georgia's Attorney General Thurbert Baker and Governor Roy Barnes secretly with 22 other states and territories supported a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court for Georgia's case number 98-536 Olmstead vs. LC. which claims:
However, five of the original 22 states (PA, WV, MD, UT, DE) have withdrawn support from Georgia's case and petition since hearing the public's outrage at this discrimination and Machiavellian attempt to violate civil rights law ADA: the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990.
Leading the deviousness, Georgia's Department of Human Resources (DHR) Commissioner Olmstead duped Georgia to appeal the 11th Circuit Court Order that proclaimed :
... the State has violated the core principle underlying the ADA's integration mandate...
...the State's actions in this case constituted discrimination ...
... drawing an analogy to the segregation of African-Americans, (this court and Congress) ...noted that "segregation for persons with disabilities `may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.' "
If the Supreme Court overturns the lower courts ruling that supported integrated services and civil rights law ADA, then the 48 million people with disabilities will be given no choice of accommodations or assistive devices, and denied a integrated life in the community.
A 1997 Gerontology study revealed 30% would rather die than to go to a nursing home or like institutions but 67% of all the thousands surveyed were unwilling to ever go any institution! [USA Today 8-5-97]
From the hardworking advocates of ADAPT-GA visit their website
The Memphis Center for Independent Living
1633 Madison Avenue,
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 726-6404 v/tty (901) 726-6521 fax
mcil@mcil.org
MCIL is a United Way of the Mid-South member Agency
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