Smith v. Union Pacific Railroad

ORDER

This successive appeal requires us to review for the second time the dismissal of Stanley Smith’s complaint in his employment-discrimination lawsuit. Our recent decision in Luevano v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 722 F.3d 1014 (7th Cir.2018), compels the opposite conclusion reached by the district court, and thus we vacate and remand.

In his initial complaint, Smith alleged, that his former employer, Union Pacific Railroad (for whom he worked as an engineer), discriminated against him in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., because of his alcoholism.…