Rizzo v. Children's World Learning Centers, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the court did not need to “engage in the McDonnell Douglas presumptions in order to infer discrimination” because the employer did “not deny that [the employee] was removed from driving duties because of her hearing impairment”
• finding question of fact existed as to direct threat where hearing-impaired individual could safely drive school bus and hear emergency vehicles, but could not hear a choking child in the back of the bus
• McDonnell Douglas test inapplicable where there was direct evidence employer removed employee from his duties because of his disability
• “Children’s World does not deny that Rizzo was removed from driving duties because of her hearing impairment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).