Legal Opinion
Tamara Watson v. Lithonia Lighting and National Service Industries, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 20, 2002No. 02-1423PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
In July 1997 Tamara Watson went to work on the assembly fines of Lithonia Lighting in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Ten months later she suffered a shoulder injury that restricted her ability to perform the repetitive motions characteristic of assembly-line work. Lithonia assigned Watson a series of tasks that she remained able to complete. In June 1999 Watson’s physician informed Lithonia that she would never again be able to perform any tasks that require repetitive motion of her upper right arm. Lithonia, which says that it requires all assembly-line workers to rotate…
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