Legal Advocacy
Amicus Briefs
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Tennessee v. Lane (2004)
DREDF filed an amicus brief in Lane on behalf of national disability community representatives and former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, who had played an instrumental role in the passage and implementation of the ADA. The Lane decision finally squarely addressed the constitutionality of ADA Title II. The Court ruled that Congress had the authority to provide monetary remedies for violations of the disability nondiscrimination mandate by a state court system, because in that respect the ADA implicated the fundamental Fourteenth Amendment right of judicial access.
