Donald C. Hedberg v. Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that evidence leading only to speculation cannot be a defense to summary judg- ment
• concluding that “some symptoms are so obviously manifestations of an underlying disability that it would be reasonable to infer that an employer actually knew of the disability”
• noting that an employer's agent did not commit ADA discrimination where he lacked knowledge of the employee's disability
• noting that “[i]f it does not know of the disability, the employer is firing the employee ‘because of’ some other reason”
• noting that attendant symptoms can make some disabilities more evident than others
• “[I]f an employee tells his employer that he has a disability, the employer then knows of the disability, and the ADA’s further requirements bind the employer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).