Baseball season is about to get up and running. Good luck on your team for this year. In my case: the Chicago Cubs are expected to be good; the Chicago White Sox not so good; and the Atlanta Braves, anybody’s guess. Also, hope everyone is having fun if not success with the NCAA tournament. Currently,
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Another Arrow in the Bag for Plaintiffs when it Comes to Disability Discrimination by Governmental Entities
Before getting started on the blog of the week, I want to express my condolences to the Bush family on the passing of George H.W. Bush. He signed the Americans With Disabilities Act on June 26 of 1990. His son also has a powerful legacy in that regards as he signed the ADAAA. Simply put,…
Gender Dysphoria and the ADA
The big news from last week was the decision from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania holding that gender dysphoria is a protected disability under the ADA. The opinion can be found here. Also, this blog entry specifically references a blog published elsewhere by Christine Duffy, Esq., whom I have known for over 20 years. She…
Wrongful Discharge and the In-house Attorney or HR Director
Before moving to Atlanta (as a result of my wife getting a job here), and devoting myself full-time to my practice of understanding the ADA, I taught people how to be paralegals in higher education for 12 years. The last four of which I ran an ABA approved paralegal program and was the ADA instructional…
EEOC v. Abercrombie and Fitch stores Inc.: How does it Apply to the ADA?
My schedule has been topsy-turvy lately. That is why you are seeing posting of the blog on different days than typical. I am also going out of town over the weekend and be back early in the week, and so my next blog will also be later in the week. The weekend after next, I…
Does a resignation end an employer’s duty to accommodate an employee?
An employee learns that she has cancer. Shaken up by the diagnosis she returns to work the same day and tells the on-site coordinator of her diagnosis. The on-site supervisor then communicates same to the company’s administration and on-site operations manager for the regional area explaining that the employee has been sent home because of…
Bringing sanity to mixed motive jury instructions
In this blog, I’ve written about mixed motive jury instruction twice. In the first entry, we explored whether mixed motive jury instructions with respect to the ADA were even possible after Gross v. FBL Financial. In the second, we explored whether where there is more than one cause of action to be…