# Jotham Clement Johnson v. City of Saline

> Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · August 6, 1998 · 151 F.3d 564

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9491370

## Case

- **Full name:** Jotham Clement JOHNSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF SALINE, Et Al., Defendants-Appellees
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- **Decided:** August 6, 1998
- **Citations:** 151 F.3d 564; 8 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 629; 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 18155; 1998 WL 442669
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Moore
- **Judges:** Boggs, Norris, Moore
- **Cited by:** 119 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- reasoning that the word “ ‘activities,’ on its face, suggests great breadth and offers little basis to exclude any actions of a public entity,” and thus holding that a contract to operate the city’s public access cable station was an activity within the meaning of Title II
- reasoning that the word "`activities,' on its face, suggests great breadth and offers little basis to exclude any actions of a public entity," and thus holding that a contract to operate the city's public access cable station was an activity within the meaning of Title II
- concluding that “services, programs, and activities include all government activities” and that “the phrase ‘services, programs, or activities’ encompasses virtually everything that a public entity does”
- finding that “the phrase ‘services, programs, or activities’ encompasses virtually everything that a public entity does” and “include[s] all of the activities of a public entity.”
- concluding that “services, programs, and activities include all government activities” and that the language “encompasses virtually everything that a public entity does”

## Opinion text

MOORE, Circuit Judge,
concurring in part.
I concur in the majority opinion with one exception. The last paragraph of part III A of the majority includes a sentence regarding the hypothetical intersection of lowest-bidder contracting requirements and reasonable accommodations for disabilities. This sentence does not pertain to any facts or legal issues presented in this appeal. This sentence is pure dictum; it is totally unnecessary and irrelevant to our disposition of this case. In other respects I concur with the majority.

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