A igualdade como ideia de justiça social para as pessoas com deficiência nas decisões do Supremo Tribunal Federal

Abstract

This thesis aims to demonstrate how the principle of equality, as the idea of justice, is being interpreted and applied to people with disabilities by Federal Court of Justice in its recent decisions. This theme is justified by the fact to increasingly look for an application of constitutional rights to minority groups. There is, in large part of society, a greater concern with the ideals of equality and justice in the face of numerous cases of violence and disrespect for rights against particular social groups.

Analyzing the Federal Constitution in a systemic way, the principle of equality laid down in various constitutional provisions and how it should be interpreted and applied so as to respect the idea of social justice in the search for a freer, fair and caring society be implemented not only through state action and social, but also by the judiciary in its decisions. It is this quest for equality and justice for people with disabilities with the Federal Court of Justice which aims at analyzing the present study. And to make this study possible, a long jurisprudential research was carried out. However, few court decisions involving such issues were located, which shows that there is still a long way to go