Legal Opinion
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections v. Yeskey
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 15, 1998No. 97-634PublishedCited by 1,385 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
The question before us is whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 104 Stat. 337, 42 U. S. C. § 12131 et seq., which prohibits a “public entity” from discriminating against a “qualified individual with a disability” on account of that individual's disability, see § 12132, covers inmates in state prisons. Respondent Ronald Yeskey was such an inmate, sentenced in May 1994 to serve 18 to 36 months in a Pennsylvania correctional facility. The sentencing court recommended that he be placed in Pennsylvania’s Motivational Boot Camp for first-time offenders, the…
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