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Third Circuit upholds ADA claim for mentally disabled man killed by police.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-MAY-03
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Third Circuit upholds ADA claim for mentally disabled man killed by police.(Americans with Disabilities Act)

Article Excerpt
A recent Third Circuit decision will allow an unusual claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to move forward: The parents of a mentally ill man have sued the West Shore Regional Police Department in Lemoyne, Pennsylvania, claiming that the fatal shooting of their son violated the act. (Schorr v. Borough of Lemoyne, No. CIV.A. 1 :CV-01-930, 2003 WL 297364 (3d Cir. Feb. 10, 2003).)...

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