Legal Opinion
Thoms v. ABF Freight System, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided June 30, 1998No. 96-C-1415PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
ADELMAN, District Judge.
The question in this ease is whether ABF’s termination of Daniel F. Thoms’s employment following Thoms’s diagnosis of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq. Currently before me is ABF’s motion for summary judgment on the matter.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
The following facts are undisputed unless otherwise noted; they generally derive from the proposed findings of fact of the parties to the extent they are uncontested.
ABF is a motor carrier with a network of 330 terminals in all 50…
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