Case: Disability Discrimination/Failure to Accommodate (11th Cir.)

A federal district court in Georgia didn’t err in granting summary judgment to Advance Auto Parts on a claim brought by a former salesperson who suffered from back pain in which she claimed that Advance failed to properly accommodate her disability. The Eleventh Circuit reasoned that the lower court didn’t err in applying the doctrine of judicial estoppel when it determined that she failed to show that she was a “qualified individual” under the Americans with Disabilities Act because she asserted in her disability discrimination claim that she was able to perform her essential work responsibilities, but claimed in her ...