Wednesday, May 20, 2015

US District Court ME: In granting, in part, and denying, in part, motion for summary judgment on disability discrimination claims by former Postal Service employee under the Rehabilitation Act, the court held that a single incident where plaintiff’s supervisor yelled at him, gestured angrily, and sent him home was not sufficiently severe or pervasive to constitute an actionable “hostile work environment”; but it was sufficient to establish a failure to accommodate claim where plaintiff’s disabling conditions (PTSD, depression, and anxiety) and his corresponding need for an accommodation (that his supervisors avoid confronting him) were either known to the Postal Service or were obvious, making it unnecessary for him to make a direct and specific request for accommodation
US Supreme Court: After finding that question presented under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act was improvidently granted, the Court held, on Fourth Amendment claim, that police officers who forcibly entered home of woman suffering from a mental illness who had become violent were entitled to qualified immunity because it was not clearly established that their doing so to prevent her from escaping or gathering more weapons would violate the constitution
Press Herald: Minot woman awarded $7.65 million in malpractice case

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