Case: Disability Discrimination/Discharge (M.D. Tenn.)

A Tennessee federal district court denied cross motions for summary judgment on disability discrimination claims under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act brought by a blind police tech with intellectual and developmental disabilities against Hospital Housekeeping Systems, LLC, finding material disputes of fact about whether the employer’s email chain constituted proper individualized assessment for direct threat determination or direct evidence of discrimination based on assumptions about his blindness.

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