Marquita Palmer v. Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that employer may terminate mentally impaired employee if mental impairment causes disruptions in the workplace
• holding that “if an employer fires an employee because of the employee’s unacceptable behavior, the fact that behavior was precipitated by a mental illness does not present an issue under the [ADA] ”
• noting that handling the stress of a job is part of being otherwise qualified
• finding that, because the ADA “protects only ‘qualified’ employees . . . and threatening other employees disqualifies one,” the employer did not violate the ADA when it fired an employee who “threatened to kill another employee” as the result of “her mental illness”
• upholding termination of employee whose threats against co-workers were triggered by mental illness
• upholding termination of employee whose threats against co-workers were triggered by mental illness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).