Adenosine deaminase (ADA) deficiency results in the accumulation of 2′-deoxyadenosine in the circulating white blood cells (lymphocytes).
Seeing people with disabilities as a "discrete and insular minority subject to a history of persecution and exclusion" (ADA –Preamble) does not mean seeing every disadvantage to that group as resulting from that history.
Her lawyers argue that Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires officers to "reasonably" modify arrest procedures when confronting people who have mental illness; San Francisco says the ADA does not apply to arrests, especially with public safety at stake.
Babbage worked closely with Ada Lovelace, daughter of the poet Byron, after whom the modern programming language ADA is named.
A series of increasingly eye-catching screen roles followed, including Ada in the BBC's Bleak House, a guest shot on Doctor Who, the best friend in an ITV drama of another Austen, Northanger Abbey (playing second fiddle to Felicity Jones), and that stellar Seagull at the Royal Court, also in 2007.
The most important picture of Ada Colau, the leftwinger who won the mayoral race in Barcelona, shows her in a green T-shirt being arrested for resisting bailiffs.
The city of San Francisco appealed that decision and is expected to argue before the supreme court that the ADA should not apply to officers' actions while making arrests, among other issues.
Ada Colau, a former housing-rights activist, will probably become mayor of Barcelona.
If this seems like a disproportionate response to excessive complaints, tough luck: the Airline Deregulation Act (ADA) of 1978 gives carriers wide discretion over everything related to air travel, except safety.
More lawsuits may soon be on the way, as the Justice Department is expected to apply new ADA rules to websites in June.
As it happens, the same plaintiff sued nearly 50 other businesses along the state's Panhandle in the same month, and filed 529 ADA suits in Florida in 2014.Signed into law in 1990, the ADA bars firms from discriminating against people with disabilities, whether they are employees or customers.
