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Leatherman, Courtney – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
A new bill specifically states that an entire institution is covered by antidiscrimination laws if it receives any federal support. The bill was designed to counteract the effects of a 1984 Supreme Court decision involving Grove City College, and it applies to sex, age, disability, and racial discrimination laws. (MSE)
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Civil Rights Legislation, Court Litigation, Disabilities
Johnson, T. Page – A Legal Memorandum, 1982
By deciding some cases and refusing others, the United States Supreme Court has begun to provide answers to some of the legal questions concerning the interpretation of two federal statutes: Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (Public Law 94-142). The first of these statutes…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Court Litigation, Court Role, Disabilities
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Washington, DC. – 1980
Eight papers from a one-day conference for lawyers, judges, and policy-makers discuss the effects on intergovernmental relations of the emerging body of laws, regulations, and court decisions governing federal grants and their recipients. The expanding importance of federal grants, notes an introduction to the papers, has meant both less leeway…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Community Development, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation