Legal Opinion
Donna Hendricks-Robinson, Penny Moore, Teresa Westlake v. Excel Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 24, 1998No. 97-3217PublishedCited by 257 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs in this case represent a class of individuals who sustained permanent injuries while working on the production line of a meatpacking plant owned by the Excel Corporation (“Excel”). These permanently restricted employees sought to continue working for Excel in their original jobs or in some other capacity but were placed on medical layoff and eventually were terminated. They filed their complaint as a class action, alleging that Excel’s unfair employment practice of laying off and terminating its employees because of their disabilities violated the…
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