A Nevada federal district court denied Clark County’s motion to dismiss Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act disability discrimination and retaliation claims by a probationary firefighter-paramedic with cardiac conditions and orthopedic injuries who was terminated after requesting a probationary period extension for recovery, finding that he plausibly alleged he could perform essential job functions with finite recovery-time accommodation and that close temporal proximity between his accommodation request and termination supported causation for retaliation.
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