Legal Opinion

Peter W. Coons v. Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, (Internal Revenue Service)

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided September 1, 2004No. 02-15665PublishedCited by 204 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HUG, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Peter Coons was demoted by his employer, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”). He alleges that he was demoted in violation of his rights under the Rehabilitation Act for discrimination because of a disability and for requesting reasonable accommodations relating to his disability. Finally, Coons alleges that the IRS demoted him in retaliation for making disclosures protected by the Whistleblower Protection Act (“WPA”), in violation of the Civil Service Reform Act.

We hold that the district court correctly found that Coons is not disabled within the meaning of the…

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