Graphic Packaging Employee Loses Disability Interference Appeal

Graphic Packaging International LLC’s victory over a worker claiming interference with his rights under disability bias law and retaliation for seeking accommodations for a hand injury was upheld Friday by the Sixth Circuit .

A unanimous panel agreed with two other circuits that the test used to analyze anti-interference claims under the Fair Housing Act “is instructive” in analyzing interference claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit hadn’t previously laid out the elements of an ADA interference claim, but the FHA standard is helpful because it similarly requires proof of coercion, ...