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- <title>
- Jan. 11, 1993: The Last Rights
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 11, 1993 Megacities
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- NATION, Page 9
- The Last Rights
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>The Justice Department begins enforcing the Disabilities Act
- </p>
- <p> Civil rights advocates may not recall the Bush years with
- undiluted pleasure, but they welcomed its final gesture. The
- Justice Department has filed its first court action to enforce
- the Americans with Disabilities Act, the sweeping
- handicapped-rights legislation Congress passed in 1990. The
- department charges that Becker CPA Review of Encino, California,
- which offers courses for accountants, violated the law by not
- providing sign-language interpreters or other aids. The
- government seeks civil penalties of up to $50,000 and damages.
- In a statement, company president Newton D. Becker said his firm
- agreed to hire an interpreter before the Justice Department
- suit: "They're just doing this for publicity's sake." National
- Federation of Independent Business spokesman Jim Weidman said
- the action, which hints at costly future requirements for
- commerce, would "put a chill into the small-business
- community." Others were encouraged. American Civil Liberties
- Union staff attorney Ruth Harlow said, "It gets the ball rolling
- for the Clinton Administration."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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