Read Sanchez-Figueroa v. Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, 07-1013

In a suit against a former employer alleging its failure to provide a reasonable accommodation for plaintiff-employee's disability violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), summary judgment for employer is affirmed where plaintiff failed to establish a prima facie case of disability discrimination as the record clearly established that plaintiff's impairment was foreseeably temporary and not a "substantially limiting" condition.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/27/2008
• Published 05/27/2008

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, BALDOCK, Senior Circuit Judge, HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rafael A. OliverasLópez de Victoria, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Enrique R. Padró Rodríguez with whom Pedro J. Manzano Yates, and Fiddler, González, & Rodríquez, PSC were on brief, for appellee.