Hattie M. Morgan v. Joint Administration Board, Retirement Plan of the Pillsbury Company and American Federation of Grain Millers, Afl-Cio-Clc

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• noting that the statutory protections against discrimination in the Americans With Disabilities Act are protections of “qualified individuals” with a disability, “but the retaliation provision protects individuals, period.”
• indicating that “public accommodation” under Title III was not limited to a “physical site” and therefore could extend to the terms of a retirement plan
• noting that the statutory protections against discrimination in the Americans With Disabilities Act are protections of “qualified individuals” with a disability, “but the retaliation provision protects individuals, period.“
• rejecting the defendant’s argument that a public accommodation pursuant to Title III of the ADA should be interpreted “literally, as denoting a physical site, such as a store or hotel” (citations omitted)
• rejecting an interpretation of public accommodation as denoting only a physical site
• “No one could walk in off the street and ask to become a plan participant. The plan was a private deal, not a public offering, and so the plaintiffs’ public accommodations claim fails as well.”

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