Texas City to Face Attorney’s Anxiety-Based Job Bias Claims (1)

An assistant attorney for Missouri City, Texas, can go forward with disability discrimination claims over the handling of her requests for job adjustments for her anxiety, the Fifth Circuit ruled.

The former employee’s evidence that she was denied accommodations by City Attorney E. Joyce Iyamu was sufficient for a jury to find her anxiety qualifies as a disability under federal and Texas law, a unanimous panel said Wednesday. A jury could also conclude that she put the city on notice of her condition and “that she had, and was seeking medical help,” triggering the Americans with Disabilities Act’s interactive job ...