Legal Opinion
Osborne v. Baxter Healthcare Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 24, 2015No. 14-8047, 14-8052PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MATHESON, Circuit Judge.
Kelly Osborne, who is deaf, applied to work as a plasma center technician (“PCT”) at BioLife Plasma Services. 1 After two interviews, Ms. Osborne was conditionally offered the PCT position pending final tests and paperwork. When BioLife’s human resources department received Ms. Osborne’s medical information, it determined Ms. Osborne could not safely monitor the donor area of the facility because she could not hear the alarms on the plasmapheresis machines, 2 which audibly sound when something goes wrong or requires attention. When Ms. Osborne reported to the facility…
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