Engineer With Sleep Disorder Can’t Sue Subcontractor 
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Published: February 24, 2011
Tags: Employment Discrimination, Judge Claude M. Hilton, U.S. District Court - Eastern District
In an engineer’s lawsuit alleging that her termination on a government subcontract for the CIA because of a sleep disorder that caused her to fall asleep during meetings violated the American With Disabilities Act, an Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to the defendant subcontractor, who did not exercise sufficient control over plaintiff to ...
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