Robert J. Fox v. General Motors Corporation, and Robert Trumble, Bankruptcy Trustee, Trustee

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• holding that applying for benefits within a workers’ compensation claim “does not estop a plaintiff from making a subsequent ADA claim”
• concluding that the ADA, like Title VII creates a cause of action for hostile work environment harassment
• concluding that harassment was attributable to plaintiffs and other disabled employees’ medical conditions because the terms handicapped MF and hospital people “expressly referenced their disabilities and resulting medical restrictions”
• noting that “[t]he mere act of applying for disability benefits does not estop a plaintiff from making a subsequent ADA claim”
• holding that hostile work environment is actionable under the ADEA
• holding, as a matter of first impression in the Fourth Circuit, that a cause of action for a hostile work environment is cognizable under the ADA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).