Paegle v. Department of the Interior

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a back injury and de gen erative disc syndrom e is no t a handicap
• “Since the Rehabilitation Act draws from the procedures of Title VII, the only proper defendant is the head of the department, agency or unit.” (citations and internal quotation marks omitted)
• temporary back injury of approximately eight months not handicap for purposes of Rehabilitation Act
• “[W]hen a federal employee seeks to redress rights guaranteed by the Rehabilitation Act, that Act preempts other actions to redress the same discrimination. (citing Shirey v. Devine, 670 F.2d 1188, 1191 n.7 (D.C. Cir. 1982))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).