Ex-American Airlines Worker Phone Screening Dooms Drug Test Suit

American Airlines defeated a Philadelphia International Airport worker’s suit alleging bias in her termination after testing positive for amphetamines, which she attributes to her prescription Adderall use.

The former customer service coordinator’s failure to respond to the drug testing company’s numerous phone calls and voicemails alerting her to the positive test result undermined her ability to prove intentional bias, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said. Her contention that the testing company should’ve tried to contact her another way was unreasonable because she listed the phone number it called 11 times on her drug testing form ...