The Players
Published on Feb 09, 2016
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Casey Martin
- Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome
- Circulatory birth defect
- Walking could cause blood clots or a fractured tibia
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PGA Tour
- Never provided golf carts to competitors
- it would “fundamentally alter the nature” of golf
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Whether or not the PGA denied rights to a disabled man by not providing a golf cart.
9th District Court
In favor of Martin
Supreme Court
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"Justice Stevens...had read all about the history of golf, and the essential point of the game is to get very small ball from one place into a hole in as few strokes as possible, and that walking was not essential, but incidental."
(TED Talk, The lost art of democratic debate)
Dissent
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"...since it is the very nature of a game to have no object except amusement, that is, what distinguishes games from productive activity, it is quite impossible to say that any of a game's arbitrary rules is essential." -Justice Scalia
Implications
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1) Applications of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 for a gifted athlete
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