Legal Opinion
DePaoli v. Abbott Laboratories
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 26, 1998No. 96-2958PublishedCited by 144 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Like many other workers in today’s highly specialized world, Janet DePaoli had to perform repetitive motions on her assembly line job. As a result, she developed tendinitis and tenosynovitis in her right hand. She twice underwent surgery for the condition and asked her employer, Abbott Laboratories, to give her a job that accommodated her medical restrictions. Abbott looked for non-assembly line jobs for her, but, having found none after DePaoli had been on disability leave for a year, it terminated her. DePaoli sued Abbott, claiming that it had discriminated…
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