Case: Disability Discrimination/Failure to Accommodate (E.D.N.C.)

A North Carolina federal district court allowed a disabled field representative’s claims of hostile work environment and failure to accommodate under the Rehabilitation Act against the Department of Commerce to proceed, finding the pro se plaintiff’s allegations that his supervisors harassed him and failed to accommodate his schizoaffective PTSD, anxiety, and sleep apnea had sufficient factual basis to survive frivolity review, while also allowing his Civil Service Reform Act retaliation claim and state law defamation claim against his supervisor to proceed.

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