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    FAQs

• Are there any common carrier regulations regarding individuals with disabilities?
• What is ‘official policy or custom’?
• What is ‘immunity’? How does it affect my ability to sue?
• What types of remedies are available if I sue?
• What distinguishes unlawful discrimination from lawful discrimination?
• Does discrimination have to be intentional to be unlawful?
• Can I sue a law enforcement official for violating my civil rights?
• Why are cases against law enforcement officials so difficult?
• Is it possible to recover attorney’s fees?
• Is it possible to receive punitive damages?
• Are there protections for the physically and mentally handicap?
• Are the civil rights laws only for minorities? Do whites have protection?
• Are affirmative action plans legal?
• What about age discrimination?
• Are there housing protections?
• Can private clubs and religious organizations discriminate?
• Is education a civil right?
• Do prisoners have civil rights? Can they successfully sue for violations?
• What exactly is a ‘civil right’?
• How are these civil rights protected?
• Can I sue whenever someone interferes with one of my civil rights?
• When is a governmental employee acting ‘under color of law’?
• Who can sue?
• What about state and local laws that say private clubs and religious organizations cannot discriminate?
• Do state and local governments have to allow private clubs and religious organizations to discriminate?

    FAQs

• Are there any common carrier regulations regarding individuals with disabilities?
• Are there protections for the physically and mentally handicap?
• I care for my elderly parents as well as work a full time position as a software engineer. Sometimes i'm tardy or take extra time off to take my parent to the doctor or other appointments. My boss tells me that I can't be counted on to put in a full day of work and she is, I expect, leaning toward firing me very soon. It is my understanding, however, that the ada prohibits bias by my boss against someone like me who is a caregiver to a disabled friend or family member. Am I right?
• When does an employer have to start to work out a plan with a disabled employee for accommodation of his or her disability?

    FAQs

• I have heard the terms ‘at will’ employees and ‘for cause’ employees. What does this legal jargon mean to me?
• Are affirmative action plans legal?

    FAQs

• What about age discrimination?

    FAQs

• Is it possible to recover attorney’s fees?

    FAQs

• What distinguishes unlawful discrimination from lawful discrimination?
• Does discrimination have to be intentional to be unlawful?
• Are there protections for the physically and mentally handicap?
• What about age discrimination?
• I am inflicted with a schizoaffective disorder which at times causes me to have overwhelming anxiety in my workplace. It has affected my coworkers and certainly my relationship with my boss. I also fear that if I publicly admit it (and take a leave of absence), my career will spiral downward. What are my rights as far as my job goes?

    FAQs

• What is education law?

    FAQs

• Employment Discrimination and the Americans with Disabilities Act

    FAQs

• When is a governmental employee acting ‘under color of law’?

    FAQs

• Are there housing protections?
• Access to Housing: A Legal Right of the Disabled
• Filing Fair Housing Complaints for Disability Discrimination

    FAQs

• What is ‘immunity’? How does it affect my ability to sue?
• Why are cases against law enforcement officials so difficult?

    FAQs

• What is ‘immunity’? How does it affect my ability to sue?
• Can I sue a law enforcement official for violating my civil rights?
• Why are cases against law enforcement officials so difficult?
• When is a governmental employee acting ‘under color of law’?

    FAQs

• Can I sue whenever someone interferes with one of my civil rights?

    FAQs

• Do prisoners have civil rights? Can they successfully sue for violations?

    FAQs

• Can private clubs and religious organizations discriminate?
• What about state and local laws that say private clubs and religious organizations cannot discriminate?
• Do state and local governments have to allow private clubs and religious organizations to discriminate?

    FAQs

• Are the civil rights laws only for minorities? Do whites have protection?

    FAQs

• Is it possible to receive punitive damages?
• How are these civil rights protected?

    FAQs

• The Legal Rights of People with Disabilities – An Overview