Case: Disability Discrimination/Exhaustion Of Remedies (D. Kan.)

A Kansas federal district court partially denied Life Centers of Kansas, LLC’s motion to dismiss discrimination claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act brought by a direct services provider with shoulder and neck injuries who alleged she was terminated due to her disability, finding that she sufficiently alleged an actual disability that limited her lifting ability and plausibly connected a biased coworker’s statements to management’s termination decision, though the court dismissed her “regarded as” theory of disability for failure to exhaust administrative remedies.

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