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Yeskey Dismissed on Remand
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2001, page 22
In the September, 1998 issue of PLN we reported Pennsylvania DOC v. Yeskey, 118 S.Ct. 1952 (1998) in which the United States supreme court held that prisons and jails are included in the coverage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, (ADA) 42 UJ.S.C. S 12131-12165. The district court in this ...
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