Holly Dawn Ruthven v. D. Elaine Wike

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that employer may terminate employees consistent with ADA for drug-related misconduct, as opposed to disabling addiction itself
• finding that “the pecuniary losses [the plaintiff] sustained in the form of- the costs of shipping his boxes and replacing clothing, though small, might well deter a person of ordinary firmness in [the plaintiffs] position from speaking again”
• “[T]he distinction between direct and circumstantial evidence has no direct correlation with the strength of the plaintiffs case”
• small .pecuniary losses could deter a prisoner of ordinary firmness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).