United States Eleventh Circuit

In an ADA action arising from Defendant-Employer's termination of Plaintiff security guard due to his hearing impairment, summary judgment for Defendants is affirmed, where the termination was justified by business necessity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/20/2009
• Published 02/20/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and BLACK and PRYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Katherine L. Butler, Butler & Harris, Houston, TX, Janet E. Hill, Hill & Beasley, LLP, Athens, GA, John W. Griffin, Marek, Griffin & Knaupp, Victoria, TX, for Allmond., Daniel B. Kohrman, AARP Found. Lit., Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae, AARP.


• For Appellees:
  
• Katherine A. Goetzl, Littler Mendelson, P.C., Eric Fleisig-Greene, Marleigh D. Dover, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., App. Staff, Washington, DC, Kurt Peterson, Littler Mendelson, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.