Hamilton v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an employee’s “angry and profane confrontation with his manager” was presumably caused by his PTSD, but his conduct “violated company policy” which resulted in his termination
• noting that PTSD alone \is not necessarily a disability contemplated by the ADA\ and that \[t]he statute requires an impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities\
• finding that a plaintiff’s verbal and physical abuse of a co- worker in violation of workplace violence policy, whether or not it was caused by plaintiff’s PTSD, constituted a legitimate and non-discriminatory reason for his termination
• stating a disability does not substantially limit a major life activity if the plaintiff is able to perform a class or broad range of jobs
• affirming summary judgment in ADA case because undisputed evidence established that the plaintiff was fired for misconduct, not because of his PTSD
• ADA does not protect employee fired for violent outbursts at workplace, even if outbursts caused by mental impairment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).