Crandall v. Paralyzed Veterans of America

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that courts “overwhelmingly agree[] that for [a] causal link to be shown the employer must have acted with an awareness of the disability itself”
• explaining that, under the ADA and Rehabilitation Act, “the employer must have acted with an awareness of the disability itself, and not merely an awareness of some deficiency in the employee’s performance that might be a product of an unknown disability”
• affirming dismissal of Rehabilitation Act claim where plaintiff was fired on September 10, 1992, and defendant’s federal grant began on September 11, 1992
• despite employee’s “rude behavior,” employer did not know of his disabled status where employee did not disclose that he suffered from a psychiatric disorder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).