Harmon E. Welsh v. City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a Municipal Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “an impairment that an employer perceives as limiting an individual’s ability to perform only one job is not a handicap under the Act”
• upholding termination as a fire fighter due to minor sensory loss in one hand
• “an impairment that an employer perceives as limiting an individual’s ability to perform only one job [firefighter] is not a handicap”
• fire department applicant with decreased sensation in two fingers did not establish a handicap
• reaching same result as Bridges under Rehabilitation Act
• interpreting equivalent provision of the Rehabilitation Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).