Case: Disability Discrimination/Discharge (S.D. Ala.)

An Alabama federal district court granted summary judgment to USA Health Care Management LLC on a disability discrimination claim under the Rehabilitation Act by a terminated trauma and critical care surgeon who had undergone hip replacement surgery, finding that he couldn’t perform the essential functions of his job—trauma and critical care duties—with or without a reasonable accommodation, due to his failure to obtain reinstatement of his hospital privileges.