Jaros v. Illinois Department of Corrections

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• indicating that individual capacity claims are not available; the proper defendant is the agency or its director (in his official capacity)
• explaining that substantive law governing ADA and Rehabilitation Act is “the same except that the Rehabilitation Act includes as an additional element the receipt of federal funds, which all states accept for their prisons”
• “[T]he analysis governing each statute is the same except that the Rehabilitation Act includes as an additional element the receipt of federal funds, which all states accept for them prisons”
• individual capacity claims are not available; the proper defendant is the agency or its director in his/her official capacity
• Rehabilitation Act claim requires as additional element the receipt of federal funds, which all states accept for their prisons
• “[E]mployees of the Department of Correction[] are not amenable to suit under the Rehabilitation Act or the ADA.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).