Mary Tuck v. Hca Health Services of Tennessee, Inc., D/B/A Donelson Hospital

KEITH, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant, HCA Health Services of Tennessee, Inc. (hereafter, “defendant Hospital”), appeals the district court’s denial of its motion for a judgment as a matter of law in a jury trial on its state claim under the Tennessee Human Rights Act and in a bench trial under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794.

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On March 27, 1991, plaintiff-appellee Tuck sued defendant Hospital, claiming defendant illegally discharged her because of her back disability. She claimed violations of 42 U.S.C. § 1983,1 section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. §…