PGA Tour v. Martin Discrimination has been around since I was born in some form or another. Discrimination can come in the form of sexually, age, and even race. Affirmative action is a step taken to ensure that those who have been victims of discrimination, in the past, are given the opportunity to work in positions, they would not have attained had there not been discrimination (Jennings, 2015). Casey Martin, a one-time professional golfer, was discriminated again by the PGA Tour. This paper will attempt to discuss the rights of Martin concerning his disability, did the PGA Tour have the right to reject Martin and the statutory requirements of the American’s with Disabilities Act, and its application to the case.
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By law, Mr. Martin degenerative circulatory disorder applied to this statute. The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits employers with 15 or more employees from discriminating against employees with disabilities and are required to make reasonable accommodations for qualified employees with disabilities (Jennings, 2015). There were many other discrimination laws Mr. Martin could have chosen to file on behalf of his case. The Civil Rights Acts of 1991 and The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission both applied to Martin’s case. Casey Martin ultimately made the best decision in filing Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This particular section covered accommodation. Martin argued that the PGA was not providing him with the necessary tools he needed to compete fairly. The Supreme Court decide 7-2 in Martin’s favor. The Supreme Court Justices cited Martin’s disorder was in line with Section III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Martin was allowed to use a cart throughout this PGA …show more content…
This case gives disable people hope. When I was four, I shoot myself in the eye. I am not blind or disable, but I can understand Mr. Martin' position on this issue. Jim Abbot, a pitcher who was born with half his left arm, inspired me. Jimmy Valvano said, “ Don’t give up Don’t ever give up”. Casey Martin never gives up. The Americans with Disabilities Act made it possible for him to live out his dream. “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body”( Corinthians 12:12-26 New Living Translation). God teaches us to treat everyone the same. We are all products of God. Treating someone that is disabled differently is not what showing that we form the same body. A disable person has the same right as anyone
Golf is known as a gentlemen’s …show more content…
By law, Mr. Martin degenerative circulatory disorder applied to this statute. The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits employers with 15 or more employees from discriminating against employees with disabilities and are required to make reasonable accommodations for qualified employees with disabilities (Jennings, 2015). There were many other discrimination laws Mr. Martin could have chosen to file on behalf of his case. The Civil Rights Acts of 1991 and The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission both applied to Martin’s case. Casey Martin ultimately made the best decision in filing Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This particular section covered accommodation. Martin argued that the PGA was not providing him with the necessary tools he needed to compete fairly. The Supreme Court decide 7-2 in Martin’s favor. The Supreme Court Justices cited Martin’s disorder was in line with Section III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Martin was allowed to use a cart throughout this PGA …show more content…
This case gives disable people hope. When I was four, I shoot myself in the eye. I am not blind or disable, but I can understand Mr. Martin' position on this issue. Jim Abbot, a pitcher who was born with half his left arm, inspired me. Jimmy Valvano said, “ Don’t give up Don’t ever give up”. Casey Martin never gives up. The Americans with Disabilities Act made it possible for him to live out his dream. “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body”( Corinthians 12:12-26 New Living Translation). God teaches us to treat everyone the same. We are all products of God. Treating someone that is disabled differently is not what showing that we form the same body. A disable person has the same right as anyone