United States Seventh Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant-employer, in case where plaintiff, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, alleged defendant violated the ADA when it involuntarily placed him on disability leave, is affirmed over claims that the district court applied the wrong legal test to the case and that the evidence established a material factual dispute regarding defendant's reason for placing plaintiff on disability leave.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/29/2006
• Decided 12/07/2006
• Published 12/07/2006

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, KANNE, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark D. Debofsky (argued), Daley, Debofsky & Bryant, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Alan M. Goldstein, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• David C. Vogel (argued), Heather R. Gill, Lathrop & Gage, Kansas City, MO, for Defendant-Appellee.