Legal Opinion
Stacy L. Deane v. Pocono Medical Center
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 11, 1998No. 96-7174PublishedCited by 225 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Chief Judge.***
This is an appeal by Stacy L. Deane from an order of the district court granting summary judgment to her former employer, Pocono Medical Center (“PMC”), on De-ane’s claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA” or the “Act”), 42 U.S.C. § 1201 et seq. In enacting the ADA, Congress intended that the scope of the Act would extend not only to those who are actually disabled, but also to individuals wrongly regarded by employers as being disabled. Deane, a registered nurse, sued PMC under the ADA as such a “regarded as” plaintiff to redress PMC’s…
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