Legal Opinion
Dana W. Burns v. City of Columbus, Department of Public Safety, Division of Police
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 7, 1996No. 95-3227PublishedCited by 98 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.
Under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794 and Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.02, Dana Burns alleges that he was unlawfully terminated from the Columbus, Ohio, police force solely because he was handicapped with a condition known as “reflex sympathetic dystrophy” 1 in his right arm incurred due to a neck injury he received at the -Police Training Academy. We conclude that Bums has failed to establish an element of his prima facie case and also has not carried Ms burden of proof to show that the City’s noridiscriminatory reasons for…
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