Disability rights enforcement could be weakened in latest SCOTUS case

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🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The Supreme Court is hearing a case this week that could hamper federal enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The case may also change the way the government enforces civil rights laws across the board.

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0:55.4	Today's story is about some missing sentences from one website in Maine and how those missing
1:02.6	sentences could lead to the end of one of the most common means of enforcing one of America's
1:09.6	most historic civil rights laws.
1:15.7	It begins in 2006 with a woman named Deborah Loffer.
1:20.2	Loffer lives in Florida and she used to work as a special security guard in places at high
1:24.6	risk for robbery, such as bank branches.
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