Titles I, II, & III
This ADA title applies to employers with 15 or more employees and requires reasonable accommodations for qualified employees with disabilities.
What is ADA Title I?
This President signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law in 1990.
Who is George Bush?
This professional may give you legal advice and represent you in court, but is not provided under the ADA.
What is an attorney or legal counsel?
Under ADA, a “service animal” is (generally) limited to this species.
What is a dog?
What must employers engage in with an individual with to identify potential reasonable accommodations under 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2(o)(3)?
What is the interactive process?
A court can charge a litigant a fee to cover the cost of a sign language interpreter.
What is False?
(The court must provide these at no cost).
This federal agency enforces Title I of the ADA against private employers.
What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)?
The minimum number of employees a business must have for ADA Title I employment rules to apply.
What is 15?
These personal assistive devices must be brought by the individual as they are not provided by the court.
What are wheelchairs?
Hearing aids?
Glasses?
This type of animal, which provides emotional support, therapy, or comfort by its presence alone, does not qualify as a “service animal” under the ADA.
What is an emotional support animal?
This is the circumstance that relieves an employer from the ADA’s duty to provide a reasonable accommodation.
What is undue hardship on the operation of the employer’s business?
This service gets you to and from the courthouse, but Florida courts won’t provide it as an ADA accommodation.
What is Transportation?
True or False? A service animal may never be lawfully excluded under the ADA.
What is false? Lawful exclusion may occur when the animal is out of control and the handler does not regain control or if the animal is not housebroken.
Name one of the "major life activities" protected under the ADA.
What is walking?
What is seeing?
Hearing?”
Learning?”
Working?”
Thinking?”
Communicating?
This official, certified written record of court proceedings is not available as an ADA accommodation.
What is a court transcript?
True or False: A judge or clerk may lawfully remove a service animal due to fear or allergies?
What is false?
Under 42 U.S.C. § 12111(9), "this" includes: making existing facilities used by employees accessible; job restructuring; modifying work schedules; reassigning to a vacant position; acquiring or modifying equipment or devises; adjusting examinations, training materials, or policies; and providing qualified readers or interpreters.
What are "reasonable accommodations?"
True or False: A person can be automatically disqualified from jury duty solely because they are blind.
What is False? (Categorical exclusion violates the ADA).
This ADA title applies to law firms and other businesses open to the public and requires barrier removal and auxiliary aids.
What is ADA Title III?
This concept allows a business to avoid making an accommodation if that accommodation is excessively costly or disruptive.
What is undue hardship?
This service involves reading materials for personal study or use, which goes beyond what courts must provide.
What is a personal reader service?
What is one example of a legitimate service dog task?
What is…
This type of employee documentation must describe the nature, severity, and duration of the impairment; the activities limited; the extent of the limitation; and why the requested accommodation is needed.
What is sufficient employee medical documentation of a disability?
Even if a service animal is properly excluded, the Court must still do this for the handler….
What is: “allow the person to participate in the proceeding without the animal?”
True or False? The proper scope of inquiry under ADA Title I focuses on demanding a diagnosis and full medical records.
What is false? (The proper focus is on the employee’s functional limitations and need for accommodation.)
This Act ensures accessible telecommunications for people with hearing or speech difficulties.
What is the Telecommunication Act of 1996, Section 255.
These requests change how a case is handled, such as deadlines, venue, or remote participation and can’t be granted through ADA accommodations.
What are procedural changes?
When the need for a service animal isn’t obvious, Court staff are allowed to ask only these two things:
What is “Is the dog required because of a disability?” and “What work or task has it been trained to perform?”
The ADA permits an employer to require an exam by a health-care professional of its choosing when this occurs.
What is when the employee fails to provide sufficient medical documentation?
Often treated as an essential job function in cases like Riel v. EDS, but questioned by the Sixth Circuit in Cehrs, this requirement may still be satisfied by a temporary leave of absence if the employer cannot show undue hardship.
What is attendance?