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

The Chicago Transit Authority is entitled to summary judgment on a bus driver’s failure to accommodate claim in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and an equal protection claim under the 14th Amendment after she requested to stop driving 60-foot articulated buses and only drive 40-foot buses because of her bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome and was terminated, an Illinois federal district court ruled. The court found that the bus driver failed to provide sufficient evidence that her carpal tunnel qualified as a disability under the ADA because it didn’t limit her major life activities or her ability to drive ...