Article: Disabling corrections and correctable disabilities: why side effects might be the saving grace of Sutton.

On June 22, 1999, Maine attorney Peter Thompson reluctantly called two of his clients to inform them that he was dropping their employment discrimination cases.(1) Thompson bluntly explained to his two diabetic clients that the Supreme Court had just declared that diabetics and other individuals with "correctable" impairments were not individuals with disabilities, and thus not entitled to the protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). As word of the surprising ruling spread, many attorneys across the nation were no doubt inclined to follow in Thompson's footsteps. However, Thompson and his colleagues may have picked up the phone too soon. Though the ...

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