4th Cir. Says ADA Title II Doesn’t Cover Public Employers but Allows Trial for Blind Worker

A blind information aide who alleged that Montgomery County, Md., refused her requests to make the software at a new call center accessible to the blind or to transfer her along with her sighted co-workers has a triable disability discrimination claim but can’t proceed under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled June 15 (Reyazuddin v. Montgomery Cnty., 2015 BL 188233, 4th Cir., 14-1299, 6/15/15).

Joining the majority in a circuit split, the Fourth Circuit ruled in an opinion by Judge Albert Diaz that Yasmin Reyazuddin ...