punitive damages question

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 3 06:43:00 PDT 2002



>
>When Congress passed the ADA, it did not specify that people could
>collect punitive damages for violations (Bush insisted upon a watered
>down version in order to sign it) but since the ADA was fashioned
>like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, there was an assumption of the
>availability of punitive damages under Title VI.
>
>Thanks,
>Marta
>--

Here's the lesson: get Congress toamend the ADA to allow for punitives. jks

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