Justices Won’t Consider Legal Test for Workplace Disability Bias

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider what threshold workers must meet to prove that their employers discriminated against them on the basis of their disability.

The justices rejected Richard Natofsky’s challenge to a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decision that threw out his lawsuit alleging the New York City government gave him poor evaluations and demoted him due to his hearing impairment. Natofsky failed to show that those adverse employment actions wouldn’t have taken place but for his disability, the appeals court said.

The court handed down a pair of decisions this year applying that same ...