Case: Disability Discrimination/Reasonable Accommodation (M.D. Fla.)

Hillsborough County, Florida isn’t entitled to summary judgment on claims of disability discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Florida Civil Rights Act of a utilities maintenance operator who suffered from partial paralysis in his right hand, a federal district court in Florida ruled. The employee alleged that the county didn’t allow him to work overtime due to his disability. The court found that the county engaged in unlawful discrimination when it denied his request to work overtime but that it had a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for doing so—overtime work would be excessively repetitive and strenuous given his ...