CPR’s Law Review Article on Class Certification of ADA Cases Is Published

January 10, 2022

In April 2021, the Syracuse Law Review convened a Symposium to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the ADA.  Several disability practitioners and professors presented papers and prepared articles for a special volume of the Review.  CPR’s Legal Director, Steven Schwartz, and Managing Attorney, Kathryn Rucker, authored a seminal article on class certification under the ADA titled: The Commonality of Difference: A Framework for Obtaining Class Certification in ADA Cases After Wal-Mart. The article includes a discussion of most ADA class certification decisions and some strategic suggestions on certifying Olmstead classes. 

The other articles in the special volume include:
Arlene S. Kanter, The ADA at Thirty: Its Limits & Potential, 71 Syracuse L. Rev. 621 (2021)
Elizabeth Emens ( forthcoming)
Natalie M. Chin, Centering Disability Justice, 71 Syracuse L. Rev. 683 (2021)
Samuel R. Bagenstos, The New Eugenics, 71 Syracuse L. Rev. 751 (2021)
Mark C. Weber, Program Access Under Disability Discrimination Law, 71 Syracuse L. Rev. 764 (2021)
Prianka Nair, The ADA Constrained: How Federal Courts Dilute the Reach of the ADA in Prison Cases, 71 Syracuse L. Rev. 791 (2021)
Steven Schwartz & Kathryn Rucker, The Commonality of Difference: A Framework for Obtaining Class Certification in ADA Cases After Wal-Mart, 71 Syracuse L. Rev. 841 (2021)
Joseph Fortunato Tantillo, An Invisible Truth: How Courts, Congress, & the ADA Have Failed to Support Reasonable Accommodation in the Workplace for People with Mental Illness, 71 Syracuse L. Rev. 903 (2021)
Doron Dorfman, Afterword: The ADA’s Imagined Future, 71 Syracuse L. Rev. 933 (2021)