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· 4/6/2000

Staceen M. Sinkler v. Midwest Property Management Limited Partnership

Citations

  • 209 F.3d 678
  • 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 6247
  • 2000 WL 352419

How courts have described this case

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

  • evaluating whether the plaintiffs inability to drive to and from work “constituted a significant barrier to her employment,” thereby impairing her ability to work
  • evaluating whether the plaintiff’s inability to drive to and from work “constituted a signifi- cant barrier to her employment,” thereby impairing her ability to work
  • “getting to and from work” is not of equal significance to enumerated major life activities and thus is not a major life activity; “rather . . . [it] is a sub-species of the activity of ‘working’ or of ‘driving’ ”
  • plaintiff not substantially limited in working when broad range of jobs remained open to her
  • facts in the record demonstrated that a broad range of jobs remained open to the plaintiff where she was able to find a job in the same line of work after her discharge

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Judges: Ripple, Kanne, Wood

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