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NATIONAL DISABLED STUDENTS UNION
RESOURCES for local organizers planning an action on April 17th
Advocacy Packet
Media Toolkit
Participating Schools and Co-Sponsors
Information regarding Garrett vs. Univ. of Alabama on the Web
To have an Advocacy Packet or a Media Toolkit mailed or faxed to you, please send your request, along with a self-addressed, stamped legal size envelope to the NDSU Regional Recruiter in your area.
The advocacy packet has
9 pages with information on the Leave Out for different groups, the NDSU logo,
listserv, and where to go for further information.
Advocacy Packet (text
only):
http://www2.uic.edu/stud_orgs/pol/dsu/advocacypacket.txt
Media Toolkit
Media Toolkit (text only):
http://www2.uic.edu/stud_orgs/pol/dsu/mediatoolkittext.txt
Participating Schools and Co-Sponsors
Participating
Schools and Co-Sponsors (text only):
http://www2.uic.edu/stud_orgs/pol/dsu/schoolsandsponsors.txt
Read
the Supreme Court decision:
http://laws.findlaw.com/us/000/99-1240.html
1.
The Village Voice
Rewriting the Constitution: Supreme Court in Contempt http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0111/hentoff.shtml
2. Bazelon Center
for Mental Health Law
The Garrett Case:
New Challenge to the ADA
http://www.bazelon.org/garrettcase.html
The Plaintiffs in the
Garrett Case
http://www.bazelon.org/garrett&ash.html#garrett
3. Ragged Edge Magazine
States Must Still
Comply with the ADA
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/extra/garrettdecovervw.htm
Supreme Court rules 5-4
to limit ADA in Garrett decision
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/drn/drn022101garrett.htm
Court Sides with Alabama
Against Garrett
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/drn/drn022101_ID_garrett.htm
A history lesson. http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/0900/0900editorial.htm
The long & sorry
history of discrimination against people with disabilities in the United States
-- and its likely causes
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/garrett/index.html
Briefs filed in the case
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/garrett/abtbriefs.htm
Disability rights advocates
respond to Supreme Court Garrett ruling
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/drn/garrettadawatchresp.htm
4. The Center for
an Accessible Society
Overview -- Supreme
Court Ruling in Alabama v. Garrett
http://www.accessiblesociety.org/topics/ada/garrettoverview.htm
Supreme Court's Narrow
Ruling Undermines ADA
http://www.accessiblesociety.org/topics/ada/garrettstatement.htm
5. Protection and
Advocacy
Supreme Court
Issues Ruling in University of Alabama v. Garrett
http://www.protectionandadvocacy.com/Title2ADA.html
6. ABC News
Court Hears Disabilities
Case: Justices Weigh States’ Rights vs. Civil Rights
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/scotus_ada001011.html
Court Limits Disabilities
Law: Case Weighed States’ Rights Vs. Civil Rights
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/dailynews/scotus_ada010221.html
Talking Over Garrett:
A Review of Oral Arguments Before the Supreme Court
http://disabilities.about.com/health/disabilities/library/weekly/aa112300b.h
tm
7. iCan Online
http://www.icanonline.net/
(Type Garrett in the "search" window and several articles are listed)
Here are some of the articles:
Meet Patricia Garrett:
Alabama woman's case before Supreme Court is test of states' rights vs. ADA
http://www.icanonline.net/news/fullpage.cfm?articleid=A186FD91671B-424A-A217BB9D2402C953&cx=
Loss in Garrett case
could be devastating, experts say
http://www.icanonline.net/news/fullpage.cfm?articleid=8CCBE67C10E0-4104-BB3E920D6AFF5EBD&cx=
Court hears opening arguments
in Garrett case
http://www.icanonline.net/news/fullpage.cfm?articleid=53053318-B4A3-44C3-ABAB01FED0D481C4&cx=
Advocates disappointed
by Garrett ruling
http://www.icanonline.net/news/fullpage.cfm?articleid=3028E4D9-AAF4-4CFF-A595599AA19AB518&cx=
Significant court cases
involving Title I of ADA
http://www.icanonline.net/news/fullpage.cfm?articleid=30CC2EB5-DA79-4098-8FB
75C072131CEB4&cx=issues.stay_informed
For more information, contact Sarah Triano at 773-463-4776 (V/Relay), 773-463-5154 (Fax) or at strian1@uic.edu
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