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Court Finds That Stabilization Act Funds Do Not Subject Airlines to Rehabilitation Act


by Pedro P. Forment View Biography
Ford & Harrison LLP View Firm Credentials
Miami Office

March 28, 2006

Previously published on May/June 2005

A federal court in Florida has dismissed a complaint by a group of disabled individuals against ten airlines, claiming the airlines violated the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 by refusing to comply with the plaintiffs' requests for accommodation. The plaintiffs claimed that the airlines failed to implement system-wide policies and practices that would make their facilities and services accessible to people with disabilities.


 

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