American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
Amicus Curiae
Laurence Gold, Counsel of Record The AFL-CIO is a federation of 75 national and international unions with a total membership of 13,000,000 working men and women. Mr. Gold is a partner at the firm Bredhoff & Kaiser and, prior to that, served as the AFL-CIO’s general counsel. He also teaches at the New York University and is a 1961 graduate of Harvard Law School. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on February 22, 1999.The Tenth Circuit held that the Americans with Disabilities Act generally has no application…
