hello,

as you may have read recently, a suit sueing a state based on age
discrimination was found to be unconstitutional.  the suit was brought in
a federal court.  the supreme court found that the federal government
could not have an age discrimination law which over rides a state.  the
same state, florida, now is bringing the same kind of case but this time
based on the ada.  they want the court to rule that the ada does not apply
when sueing the state.  this would mean that as an employee that an
individual could not sue under the ada.  if a state web site was
unaccessible, it could not be sued under the ada.  if you wanted print
material with an alternitive format, nope, the ada would not apply.  after
the age case, many folk who know of such things said that the ada would be
next and that it too would fall.  if so, one could only sue the state
under state law, which varies greatly around the country.  in addition to
it's other many flaws, the ada was not made a constitutional amendent,
unlike other civil rights related law.  if the ada is found not to apply
in state cases, the eeo and other such federal protection laws will surely
be next.


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