Wonder why this does not apply in Idaho???
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Jim Douglas, administrator of the agency's wildlife division, said the average age of Nebraska deer hunters is 42. Under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, the agency must provide reasonable accommodations for people with visual disabilities or risk losing millions in federal money used for wildlife conservation in Nebraska. [/blockquote]
Sabotloader,
The EEOC says:
"A vision impairment is a disability if: (1) it substantially limits a major life activity; (2) it was substantially limiting in the past (i.e., if an individual has a ‘record of’ a substantially limiting impairment); or (3) an employer ‘regards’ or treats an individual as having a substantially limiting vision impairment…
"Major life activities are those basic activities, including seeing, that an average person can perform with little or no difficulty…
"A totally blind person still meets the ADA's first definition of ‘disability,’ even if she can move about freely with the use of a white cane or service animal, can work with assistive technology or a reader, and can use her hearing to do what others can do using sight (e.g., cross a street)…
"A person who has a record of an impairment that substantially limited a major life activity in the past or who is regarded by his employer as having such an impairment also has a disability and, therefore, is covered by the ADA."
It might be better to say the law doesn't apply any more to Idaho than to Nebraska. Mr.Douglas was bigtime stretching theintent of ADA in his statement, though there's little doubt a lawsuit brought by a bunch of gray-haired, spectacle-wearing, 50-somethings might wellhave founda sympathetic jury and cost the state of Nebraska much moola. I'd have to say, he was simply "dodging bullets"
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