Legal Opinion
Anthony Sansone v. Megan Brennan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 6, 2019No. 17-3534 & 17-3632PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Barrett, Circuit Judge.
Tony Sansone, who is confined to a wheelchair, needs a parking place with room to deploy his van's wheelchair ramp. For years, the Postal Service, his employer, provided him one. But in 2011, it took that spot away and failed to provide him with a suitable replacement. Sansone then retired and sued the Service under the Rehabilitation Act for failing to accommodate his disability. A jury returned a verdict in his favor and Sansone recovered compensatory damages, as well as back and front pay.
The Service asks us to vacate the district court's judgment because of two jury…
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