Legal Opinion
Burris v. City of Phoenix
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided August 24, 1993No. 1 CA-CV 90-0545PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CLABORNE, Judge.
Appellant Ronald Burris (“Burris”) applied for a fire fighter position with Appellee City of Phoenix (“the City”). Burris took and passed all of the required tests, and the City offered him the job as a fire fighter. However, later the City refused to hire Burris because he had a history of cancer, though he did not have the disease at the time.
Burris sued the City, and the trial court ruled that the City had discriminated against Burris on the basis of handicap and ordered the City to hire him as a fire fighter. Burris appealed from other rulings of the trial court,…
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