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OP from Medium should sue airline pilot for ADA Violations. OP from Medium should name and shame the fools that caused this problem.

• ubernostrum 10y ago
  Due to some historical quirks, the ADA doesn't actually apply to airlines the way you're expecting it to. There is federal law which applies, it's just not the ADA. The basic history here is: * In 1973 Congress passed the Rehabilitation Act. This is an ADA-like law which applies to federal agencies, contractors and some entities which receive federal funding. * In 1986, the Supreme Court ruled that the manner in which airlines benefit from federal funding is too indirect to cause them to be covered under the Rehabilitation Act. * In response, Congress passed the Air Carrier Access Act, which applied Rehabilitation-Act-type standards to airlines. * Later on in 1990, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, which went further in which types of entities it applied to. The result is that for something that happens to you at an airport, you need someone familiar with the above laws to figure out which one applies to the particular people or entities who caused your problem. If it's the TSA or the airport itself, you use the Rehabilitation Act; if it's the airline, it's the Air Carrier Access Act; if it's someone else you probably use the ADA. This is why, for example, this guy is working to slowly crack open the TSA using the Rehabilitation Act instead of the ADA, since the ADA isn't the law that applies to the TSA: https://s.ai/tsa/legal/rehab_act/ https://s.ai/tsa/legal/rehab_act/