United States Second Circuit

Although defendant's sick leave policy requiring employees to submit general diagnoses as part of a medical certification procedure following certain absences violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, genuine issues of material fact preclude summary judgment on the issue of the business necessity defense provided for in the statute.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/18/2003
• Published 06/18/2003

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge., Before:  CABRANES, POOLER, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ann Elizabeth Reesman, McGuiness, Norris & Williams, LLP, Washington D.C., for Amicus Curiae Equal Employment Advisory Counsel., Stephen A. Bokat, Robin S. Conrad, and Ellen Dunham Bryant, National Chamber Litigation Center, Inc., Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae The Chamber of Commerce of the United States., Daniel B. Korhman, AARP Foundation Litigation, and Melvin Radowitz, AARP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae AARP.


• For Appellees:
  
• Evelyn M. Tenenbaum, Assistant Solicitor General of the State of New York, Albany, N.Y. (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Daniel Smirlock, Deputy Solicitor General, and Nancy A. Spiegel, Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellants., Edward J. Greene, Jr., Hinman Straub P.C., Albany, N.Y., for Plaintiff-Appellee.