Stansberry v. Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the employer’s years-long awareness of the disability in question “undercuts the inference” of discrimination
• holding that poor performance constitutes a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for termination
• “Because Air Wisconsin knew of her disability for a long period of time, this undercuts the inference that Stansberry’s termination was based on ... his wife’s disability....”
• even if the employee’s poor work performance was due to wife’s illness, it’s irrelevant because the employee was not entitled to a reasonable accommodation
• “[T]he three theories articulated in Larimer are not necessarily an exhaustive list . . . .”
• “[The plaintiff] offers nothing to show that his termination was related to his [family member’s] illness instead of his perceived unsatisfactory performance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).