Comments on: Ross Douthat, “Did The Americans With Disabilities Act Work?” https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/07/ross-douthat-did-the-americans-with-disabilities-act-work/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:05:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: William Nuesslein https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/07/ross-douthat-did-the-americans-with-disabilities-act-work/comment-page-1/#comment-96708 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:09:36 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=18676#comment-96708 Walter Olsen’s essay on CATO @ Liberty was great.

I have worked on three elections at a polling station with a machine for disabled voters. The machine has yet to be used, yet two people were assigned to the machine. ADA can help only those who are disabled somewhat. The patient with advanced Alzheimer’s disease would be an example of a disabled person who is not helped by ADA. Those who want extra time on the SAT or other test are seldom disabled enough to deserve the help of ADA.

I hope that somebody at CATO or elsewhere can do a study of cost per use of ADA. I suspect it would be quite high.

]]> By: Ted Frank https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/07/ross-douthat-did-the-americans-with-disabilities-act-work/comment-page-1/#comment-96569 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:59:53 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=18676#comment-96569 Jonathan Cohn gives the Republicans too much credit: a large expansion to the ADA passed just a year ago with enthusiastic Republican support. Of course, Cohn views opposing the ADA as evidence of unreasonableness.

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