U.S. District Court: ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act DISCRIMINATION.

• Position: Brief Article

Yeskey v. Pennsylvania, 76 F.Supp.2d 572 (M.D.Pa. 1999). A prisoner sued a state and prison officials alleging that their denial of his admission to a boot camp program, allegedly due to his high blood pressure, violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The case was eventually considered by the United States Supreme Court which ruled that ADA applied to state prisons. The case was remanded to the district court which held that the individual defendants in the case could not be held...