Legal Opinion
Hunsaker v. Contra Costa County
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 20, 1998No. 97-16542PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge:
Contra Costa County and several of its administrators (County) appeal from a permanent injunction. Hunsaker and others in the plaintiff class (Hunsaker) obtained the injunction which prevented the County from administering the Substance Abuse Screening Inventory (test), a pen-and-paper screening test, to applicants for the County’s general assistance program. According to Hunsaker, the test had a disparate impact on recovered and recovering drug and alcohol addicts and thus violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (Act).
The district court had jurisdiction pursuant…
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3Cited by10 opinions
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