Legal Opinion
Troy Pesterfield v. Tennessee Valley Authority Charles Dean, Marvin T. Runyon John Waters
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 12, 1991No. 90-6308PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CONTIE, Senior Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant, Troy Pesterfield, appeals the district court’s judgment concluding that defendant-appellees, Tennessee Valley Authority (“TVA”), Martin T. Runyon, and John Waters, 1 did not violate the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. §§ 791, 794 (“the Act”). For the following reasons, we affirm.
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In 1963, TVA hired plaintiff Troy Pester-field as an iron worker apprentice and employed him as an hourly blue collar construction worker until he injured his ankle on the job on March 11, 1977. The injury resulted in surgery and permanent medical constraints on…
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