U.S. District Court: ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act DISCRIMINATION.Yeskey v. Pennsylvania, 76 F.Supp.2d 572 (M.D.Pa. 1999). A prisoner sued a state and prison officials alleging that their denial of his admission to a boot camp Software from Apple that enables an Intel x86-based Macintosh to host the Windows XP operating system. Boot Camp is used to divide the hard disk into Windows and Mac partitions, to install the necessary drivers and to create a dual boot environment. program, allegedly due to his high blood pressure, violated the Americans with Disabilities Act Americans with Disabilities Act, U.S. civil-rights law, enacted 1990, that forbids discrimination of various sorts against persons with physical or mental handicaps. (ADA Ada, city, United States Ada (ā`ə), city (1990 pop. 15,820), seat of Pontotoc co., S central Okla.; inc. 1904. It is a large cattle market and the center of a rich oil and ranch area. ). The case was eventually considered by the United States Supreme Court United States Supreme Court: see Supreme Court, United States. which ruled that ADA applied to state prisons. The case was remanded to the district court which held that the individual defendants in the case could not be held liable for discrimination in furnishing public services. The district court also held that the prisoner failed to show that he was "disabled" as required to support an ADA claim. The court found that intense exercise, which was part of the boot camp program, was not a "major life activity" which was required to be accommodated under ADA. (Pennsylvania Motivational Boot Camp Act) |
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