Legal Opinion
Jacquelyn M. Quint v. A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company, Jacquelyn M. Quint v. A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 7, 1999No. 98-1300, 98-1342PublishedCited by 221 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CYR, Senior Circuit Judge.
Defendant A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company (“Staley”) appeals from a district court judgment awarding Jacquelyn Quint $300,000 in damages for having discharged her in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Quint in turn cross-appeals from the judgment insofar as it disallowed all but $8,019 in back pay and rejected her request for reinstatement.
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BACKGROUND
In December 1991 Quint went to work at Staley’s potato-starch processing plant in Houlton, Maine, initially as a warehouse worker and later as a press operator. In the latter position she manually…
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