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

NYU Langone’s motion for summary judgment is denied on a physician’s assistant’s claim that the hospital discriminated against him in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the New York City Human Rights Law by failing to accommodate his back-related disability, a federal court ruled. The court found that a physiological disorder affecting his spine qualifies as a physical impairment under the ADA, and that standing is a major life activity substantially impaired by his back pain. Genuine issues of fact exist on the issues of whether the hospital knew or should have known of his disability to trigger ...