By: Derek Hawkins//November 1, 2016//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: Jacquelyn M. Carlson v. Christian Brothers Services
Case No.: 15-3807
Officials: POSNER, FLAUM, and MANION, Circuit Judges.
Focus: Americans with Disabilities Act
The plaintiff filed this suit against her former employer, defendant Christian Brothers Services (the parties refer to it as CBS), charging disability discrimination. CBS is a religious organization headquartered near Chicago that provides health and a number of other services to the Roman Catholic community in Illinois, other parts of the United States, and Canada. See Christian Brothers Services, www.cbservices.org (visited Oct. 26, 2016, as were the other websites cited in this opinion). The plaintiff, a senior customer service representative of the defendant, was in an automobile accident in March 2011 as a result of which she had to use a cane, and limped, and she was fired on February 1, 2012, because (she contends) of a perceived disability (mobility impairment) caused by the accident that had required her to take time off from work and to use her health insurance to pay the costs she’d incurred as a result of the accident. She argues that in these circumstances her employer’s firing her violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Affirmed