United States First Circuit

Even if plaintiff had requested and received permission to walk away from her supervisors if her mental illness made her uncomfortable, no one prevented her from exercising that accomodation, so plaintiff did not show that termination for physically threatening a supervisor was pretextual.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/05/2001
• Published 04/05/2001

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, STAHL, and LYNCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John R. Lemieux for appellant., Barbara L. Sloan, with whom C. Gregory Stewart, General Counsel, Philip B. Sklover, Associate General Counsel, and Vincent J. Blackwood, Assistant General Counsel, were on brief for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter Bennett, with whom Frederick B. Finberg and The Bennett Law Firm were on brief, for appellee.