An administrative law judge erred in according little weight to a North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services determination that the Social Security claimant qualified as disabled. The ALJ also didn’t consider the limited extent to which the claimant ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Disability Judge Diana Gribbon Motz Social Security

A blind plaintiff lacked standing to sue a Virginia bank for maintaining a website without reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities, as he lived 300 miles from the nearest branch. Further, the bank’s voluntary upgrades – made prior to the ...

Tagged with: Banking Civil Rights Disability Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

A law student who was denied testing accommodations by the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners should have sought state-court review. In addition, the Board was immune from the disability claims, and the student failed to state a Fourteenth Amendment claim. ...

Tagged with: Administrative Attorneys Civil Rights Disability Equal Protection Fourteenth Amendment Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A veteran who later went to work for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, but whose employment was later terminated, presented genuine issues of material fact as to whether she was an individual with a disability and whether the VA’s ...

Tagged with: Disability Employment Employment Discrimination Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

Although the plaintiff’s employment was terminated a matter of days after she disclosed her disability, her much-longer history of excessive absences — unrelated to her disability — constituted a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for separation. Background On April 22, 2013, Plaintiff ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Disability Employment Employment Discrimination Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

This case began with a complaint by the U.S. Department of Justice alleging that the Commonwealth violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. That complaint was resolved via consent decree, which required the Commonwealth to change the way it provides services ...

Tagged with: Disability Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Complainant is a 26-year employ­ee of the Defense Logistics Agency in Richmond and is a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair. He was subjected to repeated instances of harassment and discrimination because of his disability. His super­visor made disparaging remarks about ...

Tagged with: Carlton M. Hadden Disability Employment Discrimination Verdict

A teacher has won another chance to prove she is disabled from teaching elementary school chil­dren, because the Virginia Retire­ment System did not stick to the statutory standard for evaluating the teacher’s claim, according to a Fairfax Circuit Court. In ...

Tagged with: Disability Fairfax County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts