Cook v. City of Philadelphia
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
KEARNEY, District Judge.
Potential employers may hot discriminate against job applicants if they regard the applicant as disabled even if he is not. Typically, those seeking a remedy must timely exhaust administrative processes before filing suit. Here, Defendant City of Philadelphia (“City”) decided to withdraw a conditional job offer to Plaintiff Michael Cook (“Cook”) to serve as a police officer two days after the City received results of psychological testing it required after making the conditional offer. Cook elected not to pursue an administrative remedy and filed this action…
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