Legal Opinion
James E. Matthews v. Commonwealth Edison Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 5, 1998No. 96-3665PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The district court granted summary judgment for Commonwealth Edison, the defendant in this suit by James Matthews under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101 et seq.; 941 F.Supp. 721 (N.D.Ill.1996). The appeal presents several issues: whether the Act has any application to bona fide RIFs (reductions in force), since the motivation for a bona fide RIF is to reduce the size of the employer’s work force rather than to get rid of any particular worker; whether an employer ever can be said to have fired a disabled worker on grounds of disability when he fired…
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