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- Title: Depaoli v. Abbott Laboratories
- Author : Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 26, 1998
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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Like many other workers in todays highly specialized world, Janet DePaoli had to perform repetitive motions on her assembly line job. As a result, she developed tendinitis and tenosynovitis in her right hand. She twice underwent surgery for the condition and asked her employer, Abbott Laboratories, to give her a job that accommodated her medical restrictions. Abbott looked for non-assembly line jobs for her, but, having found none after DePaoli had been on disability leave for a year, it terminated her. DePaoli sued Abbott, claiming that it had discriminated against her by failing to accommodate her disability, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. sec. 12101 et seq., and that it had violated Illinois common law by discharging her in retaliation for filing a workers compensation claim. The district court granted summary judgment to Abbott on both counts, finding on the ADA claim that DePaoli had not established that she had a "disability" within the meaning of the Act. See DePaoli v. Abbott Labs., 1996 WL 197685, at *9 (N.D. Ill. Apr. 22, 1996). She has appealed only the ADA count. Although we disagree with the district courts analysis of the "disability" requirement under the statute, we affirm the judgment for Abbott on other grounds.