The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is the short title of United States Public Law 101-336, signed into law on July 26, 1990. It is a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. It affords similar protections against discrimination to the disabled as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, and other characteristics illegal.
The Americans with Disabilities Act, commonly referred to as the ADA, consists of three introductory sections and five titles:
- Introductory Sections
- Table of Contents
- Findings and Purposes
- Definitions
- Main Section
- Title I - Employment
- Title II - Public Services (and public transportation)
- Title III - Public Accommodations
- Title IV - Telecommunications
- Title V - Miscellaneous
See Disability Discrimination Act for the corresponding UK legislation.
(Link to some of the big legal cases would be good here).