Public plans--Americans with Disabilities Act--discrimination-disparate treatment of mental disabilities. Rogers v. Department of Health and Environmental Control, 174 F.3d 431 (4th Cir.1999).
Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which prohibits discrimination in the services, programs or activities of public entities, does not require a state's long-term disability plan to provide the same level of benefits for mental and physical disabilities. By placing mental disabilities in different risk classifications from physical disabilities, South Carolina's long-term disability plan did not violate a South Carolina statute that prohibits discrimination "between insureds of the same class and risk involving the same hazards."
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