Legal Opinion
James Dalton v. Subaru-Isuzu Automotive, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 26, 1998No. 96-2865, 96-2920, 96-2938, 96-3006, 96-3046, 96-3047, 96-3107, 96-3163 and 96-3171PublishedCited by 154 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Certain individuals who worked on the production floor at the Subaru-Isuzu Automotive, Inc. (SIA), plant in Lafayette, Indiana, all suffered injuries on the job—most of the repetitive stress type—that left them permanently disabled to varying degrees. An original group of sixteen of these employees brought suit against SIA under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., both as individuals and as putative class representatives. The district court denied class certification, however, and severed the individual cases, assigning separate…
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