Case: Disability Discrimination/Discharge, Perceived Disability (D. Conn.)

A Connecticut federal district court denied summary judgment to the Town of Farmington on Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act claims by a building maintenance foreman with a hernia who cares for his disabled daughter, finding material issues of fact exist regarding whether the Town’s stated budget justification for eliminating his position was pretextual and whether discrimination based on his hernia and association with his disabled daughter was a motivating factor.

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