Today’s case of the day is a published decision from the Sixth Circuit decided March 8, 2022. The case is Blanchet v. Charter Communications, LLC, here, and it contains a couple of lessons for employers. First, outsourcing HR doesn’t mean that you lose responsibility for what happens if the third-party administrator doesn’t comply with
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Covid-19 May be Covered by both Actual Disability and Regarded As Prongs
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Today’s blog entry deals with the situation where a person get Covid-19, goes through most of the quarantine period, and then is fired by the employer during the quarantine period despite the employer knowing that the person had Covid-19 symptoms. The case is Brown v. Roanoke Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, here, decided by the…
Ketanji Brown Jackson and Disability Rights
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With the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson by Pres. Biden to the United States Supreme Court, it is time for me to do my analysis of the nominee’s decisions pertaining to disability rights. My search was done in casetext and it was, “judge/4 Brown-Jackson and ADA or 501 or 504 and disability. I also did…
Executive Agency Goings on and How Far Can You Go with a Request for Information
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Y’all may be wondering where my blog entry from last week went. I was absolutely slammed with client matters and could not get to it. I’ve got a moment now. So, this blog entry is going up at the beginning of this week. Before moving onto the blog entry of the day, there have been…
Abstinence Only Requirements R.I.P.?
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In a prior blog entry, here, I discussed how there is an opportunity for plaintiff lawyers when it comes to medical licensing boards and professional recovery programs. On February 2, 2022, that opportunity only increased as a result of a letter from the Department of Justice to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and its…
Disability Related Conduct and Unspecified Leave is not the Same as Indefinite Leave
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Today’s blog entry is a two for one, both dealing in the failure to accommodate space broadly speaking. The first case is Humphrey v. Memorial Hospitals Association, 239 F.3d 1128 (9th Cir. 2001). That case considers the question of whether conduct related to a disability has to be evaluated differently with respect to the…
Just When Does the Statute of Limitations Begin to Run in Legal Malpractice Cases
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Posted in ADA, Legal malpractice
Today’s blog entry returns us back to the world of legal malpractice. You simply do not see a lot of legal malpractice with respect to ADA matters, and I have always wondered why. We have discussed legal malpractice with respect to ADA matters before, such as here. The case of the day is Suburban…
Is it Necessary to Allege a Causal Link Between the Accommodation and the Disability?
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Today’s case comes from 2003 and represents the start of a line of cases that I am not sure I have discussed before. I am authoring a chapter in a federal employment litigation treatise on disability discrimination and the case came up during the course of that work. The case is Felix v. New York…
Is Tester Standing a Thing When it Comes to Title III of the ADA
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Today’s blog entry concerns the question of whether a person acting as a tester can ever have standing to pursue ADA claims. The case of today is Lauffer v. Looper, a published decision from the 10th Circuit decided on January 5, 2022, here. As usual, the blog entry is divided into categories and…
Ask for a Remand to State Court Early in Litigation and not Later
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Happy new year everyone! Today’s blog entry deals with the question of what happens when a state passes all kinds of laws to cut down on serial plaintiffs who then flood the federal courts, which do not have the same restrictions, with similar cases. The case of the day is Arroyo v. Rosas, here.…