United States v. Georgia

United States v. Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 11, 2005 Decided January 10, 2006
Full case name	United States v. Georgia, et al.; Tony Goodman v. Georgia, et al.
Docket no.	04-1203
Citations	546 U.S. 151 (more) 126 S. Ct. 877; 163 L. Ed. 2d 650
Case history
Prior	Goodman v. Ray, 120 F. App'x 785 (11th Cir. 2004), cert. granted sub nom., Goodman v. Georgia, 544 U.S. 1031 (2005).
Holding
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 applies to state prisons.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Scalia, joined by unanimous
Concurrence	Stevens, joined by Ginsburg
Laws applied
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; U.S. Const. Amend. XIV

United States v. Georgia, 546 U.S. 151 (2006), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court decided that the protection of Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), passed by the U.S. Congress, extends to persons held in a state prison and protects prison inmates from discrimination on the basis of disability by prison personnel. Specifically, the court held that Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131–12165., is a proper use of Congressional power under the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 5, making it applicable to prison system officials.^[1]