Legal Opinion
Burton v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided February 12, 2003No. 01 CIV. 72(DC)PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHIN, District Judge.
In this employment case, plaintiff Terrance Burton claims that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (the “MTA”) and the New York City Transit Authority (“NYCTA”) discriminated against him by terminating his probationary employment as a bus driver in violation of city, state, and federal disability discrimination laws. Primarily, Burton contends that the defendants wrongly perceived him as being disabled because he underwent heart valve surgery and began a life-long anticoagulant regimen using the medication Couma-din. For the reasons that follow, defendants’…
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