Worker with Lyme Disease Has Bias Claim Revived

A printing machine operator who was fired after he was recovering from a spinal tap that revealed he had Lyme disease can proceed with a New Jersey law disability bias claim, a state appeals court ruled (Cook v. Gregory Press, Inc., 2016 BL 259465, N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div., DOCKET NO. A-5646-13T3, unpublished 8/11/16).

The ruling serves as a reminder that disability is defined more broadly under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination in comparison to its federal counterpart, the Americans with Disabilities Act. Unlike the ADA, the NJLAD doesn’t require a condition to substantially limit a ...