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· 12/27/1993

Matheis v. Myers

Citations

  • 199 A.D.2d 478
  • 606 N.Y.S.2d 34
  • 1993 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 12330

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the ACA adopts the Rehabilitation Act’s rights and remedies, but not its statute of limitations
  • noting that the “Rehabilitation Act’s borrowed statute of limitations” would be “Tennessee’s one-year personal-injury statute of limitations”
  • stating that ACA-covered entities “must defer to the individual’s request” of aid
  • “Under the Rehabilitaiton Act, public accommodations . . . must ask individuals with disabilities about their choice of aid. . . . [T]he ACA holds all covered health programs . . . must defer to the individual’s request.”
  • “[A] bright-line rule . . . brings clarity and consistency”

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