Legal Opinion
Debra L. McWright v. Lamar Alexander, Secretary of the United States Department of Education, and United States Department of Education
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 28, 1992No. 91-3389PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
Debra L. McWright, who is unable to bear children, alleges that her employer, the Office of Civil Rights of the United States Department of Education (DOE), discriminated against her on the basis of handicap by refusing to grant her requests for childcare leave on terms comparable to those given to biological mothers. The district court dismissed McWright’s complaint brought under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 701 et seq., for failure to state a claim. We reverse and remand.
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The facts, as alleged by the complaint, are as follows. McWright contracted polio…
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