Law prof @uidaholaw. Fmr fed prosecutor & civil rights. Disability law, procedure, ethics, legal writing, & litigation. Also: knitting, baking, skiing.
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ALT Does disability rights law impose an obligation on employers, schools, and other places of public accommodation to control the behavior of coworkers, students, or other third parties to accommodate an individual with disabilities? This Article examines this unexplored legal question. It traces the development of case law and shows that the law frequently fails to protect people with disabilities from the choices and behaviors of third parties that can serve as major barriers to access yet are often considered beyond the reach of the Americans with Disabilities Act’s reasonable accommodation doctrine. This Article argues that this problem is the result of the improper imposition of the privity paradigm, which limits the inquiry about the reasonableness of an accommodation to the relationship between the first party (the disabled individual) and the second party (the employer or other entity covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act).
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