United States First Circuit

A policy, which forbade the manager of the store in question from reconsidering a clerk's initial refusal to sell alcohol to a disabled person whose symptoms mimic the traits of intoxication, even after the customer revealed his disability, violates the ADA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/24/2003
• Published 06/24/2003

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lawrence C. Winger, for appellant., John M.R. Paterson and Bernstein Shur Sawyer & Nelson on brief for Maine Restaurant Ass'n, Maine Grocers Ass'n, Maine Oil Dealers Ass'n, and Maine Merchants Ass'n, amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter M. Rice, with whom Tracie L. Adamson, Lipman, Katz & McKee, P.A., and Disability Rights Center of Maine were on brief, for appellee.