Patricia McGuirk GERACI, Appellant, v. MOODY-TOTTRUP, INTERNATIONAL, INC.

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that “an employer cannot fire someone because of a disability it knows nothing about”
• “it is counter-intuitive to infer that the employer discriminated on the basis of a condition of which it was wholly ignorant”
• \An employee's religion . . . is often unknown to the employer . . . .\
• “[I]t is counter-intuitive to infer that the employer discriminated on the basis of a condition of which it was wholly ignorant.”
• “[C]ourts have regularly held that the plaintiff cannot make out a prima facie case of discrimination unless he or she proves that the employer knew about the plaintiff’s particular personal characteristic.”
• affirming grant of summary judgment for defendant employer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).