Can a non-disabled employee recover backpay under the ADA? At least one appeals court thinks so.

In the brilliant 1993 movie The Fugitive, there is an iconic scene in which the wrongly accused Dr. Richard Kimble emphatically tells Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard, “I didn’t kill my wife!” Gerard responds, “I don’t care!”  In the recent case of Nawara v. Cook County, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit addressed a claim for disability discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act....
By: McAfee & Taft

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