Richard Despears v. Milwaukee County, Milwaukee County Personnel Review Board, and Milwaukee County Medical Complex

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• summary judgment for employer proper because alleged disability was not sole cause of plaintiff’s demotion
• maintenance worker, whose job responsibilities required him to have a valid operator’s license, was convicted a fourth time for DUI and lost his license
• the law assumes that alcoholics are capable of avoiding driving while drunk; the loss of a driver's license for driving under the influence is therefore not solely traceable to the disability of alcoholism
• “It is true that the Americans with Disabilities Act ... require[s] the employer to make a reasonable accommodation of an employee’s disability, but we do not think it is a reasonably required accommodation to overlook infractions of law.”

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