Where appellant challenged the grant of summary judgment to his city employer on a claim for disability discrimination, the judgment did not provide a basis as to why the court was granting the motion, so it cannot be determined whether ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Finality Of Judgments

Where a law school applicant sued a university and school officials under the Americans with Disabilities Act, claiming that the school discriminated against him when it rejected his admission application, the judgment for the defendants is affirmed because the school ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Law School Application mental illness

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has upheld a judgment of more than $376,000 awarded to a Mercy Hospital St. Louis housekeeper in her disability discrimination suit against the hospital. On March 17, a three-judge panel unanimously ruled in ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Mercy Hospital St. Louis Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Tammie McKinney

Defendant appealed from the judgment entered for plaintiff in her employment disability discrimination suit under the MHRA. On appeal, defendant challenged the sufficiency of evidence that plaintiff suffered from a disability or that she was discriminated against under the MHRA ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Evidence of Disability

Plaintiff appealed from the district court’s grant of summary judgment to defendant in plaintiff’s discrimination-in-hiring claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act. On appeal, plaintiff argued that the district court erred in dismissing his claim based on the sufficiency of ...

Tagged with: ADA disability discrimination Prima Facie Case

Where a plaintiff in a disability-discrimination action challenged the grant of summary judgment to her former employer, the U.S. Department of Energy, the uncontroverted facts established that the DOE accommodated the plaintiff’s disabilities to the extent that she requested specific ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Failure To Accommodate

Where a plaintiff in a disability-discrimination action challenged the grant of summary judgment to her former employer, the U.S. Department of Energy, the uncontroverted facts established that the DOE accommodated the plaintiff’s disabilities to the extent that she requested specific ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Failure To Accommodate

Where an assistant college professor brought claims including discriminatory discharge based on disability following her termination, the plaintiff did not identify facts to support a cat’s paw theory and did not raise this argument before the district court, and the ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Pretext

Where appellant challenged the dismissal of her disability-discrimination action, the dismissal was proper for failure to exhaust the administrative remedies. Judgment is affirmed. Thomas v. Ameren U.E. (MLW No. 74427/Case No. 18-3506 – 2 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Failure To Exhaust

Defendant appealed the order overruling its motion to stay the proceedings and compel arbitration of plaintiff’s disability discrimination suit. Plaintiff claimed that she had vision issues and had her store’s assistant manager complete electronic documents for her upon plaintiff’s hiring, ...

Tagged with: Arbitration disability discrimination

Where plaintiff employee challenged a jury verdict against her on her action for damages on claims of disability discrimination and retaliation under the Missouri Human Rights Act, the evidence did not establish that the employer regarded the employee as  having ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination jury instructions MHRA