United States Second Circuit

Employer's choice not to employ over-the-road truck drivers who used prescription medications with side effects that might impair driving ability did not violate the rights of job applicants using those medications, under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/05/2003
• Published 02/05/2003

Judges

• F.I. PARKER, Circuit Judge., Before:  JACOBS, F.I. PARKER, SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Julie L. Gantz,Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (Nicholas M. Inzeo, Acting Deputy General Counsel, Philip B. Sklover, Associate General Counsel, Vincent J. Blackwood, Assistant General Counsel, on brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James H. Hanson, Scopelitis, Garvin, Light & Hanson, Indianapolis, IN (Laurie T. Baulig, Scopelitis, Garvin, Light & Hanson, Washington, DC, Thomas J. Grooms, Bond Schoeneck & King, Syracuse, NY, on brief), for Defendant-Appellee.