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· 6/20/2007

Eric Jones v. John E. Potter, Postmaster General

Citations

  • 488 F.3d 397
  • 19 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 577
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 14454
  • 2007 WL 1753564

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding it improper for an “employer ... [to] wait[ ] for a legal, legitimate reason to fortuitously materialize, and then use [ ] it to cover up his true, longstanding motivations for firing the employee”
  • “The Rehabilitation Act, not the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), constitutes the exclu- sive remedy for a federal employee alleging disability-based discrimina- tion.”
  • “The Rehabilitation Act, not the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), constitutes the exclu- sive remedy for a federal employee alleging disability-based discrimina- tion.”
  • “The Rehabilitation Act, not the [ADA], Tucker originally filed her action in this Court’s Dayton seat of court. (See Doc. 19, #230
  • Once a defendant articulates a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for its employment decision, “the remaining question is whether that reason was simply a pretext designed to mask discrimination”
  • statement creating two distinct inferences does not constitute direct evidence

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Judges: Guy, Batchelder, Gilman

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