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Article: The Disability Pendulum: The First Decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act.(Book review)
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The Disability Pendulum Ruth Colker New York University Press www.nyupress.org 245 pp., $45
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) went into effect in July 1992. In The Disability Pendulum, Ruth Colker, a noted disability scholar, discusses the act's legislative history and analyzes the first 10 years of litigation involving it. She high lights the irony that this "boldly pro-plaintiff piece of legislation" has been so narrowly interpreted that it protects only a small percentage of the 43 million disabled Americans described in its preamble, and she concludes that initial enforcement efforts have been a "massive disappointment for the disability rights ...