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ADA's Future

This past week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states are not obliged to pay damages to disabled state employees under federal law. Lisa Simeone talks to Deborah Kaplan, executive director of the World Institute on Disability, based in Oakland, California, and Peter Blanck, director of the Law, Health Policy and Disability Center at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City.

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