Legal Opinion
Ruiz Rivera v. PEIZER PHARMACEUTICALS, LLC
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 27, 2008No. 07-1595PublishedCited by 363 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, District Judge.
This case presents as a so-called “regarded as” disability claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). However, as the discussion below reveals, once the layers of argument are stripped away, the regarded as claim is revealed to be a chimera. Thus, the District Court’s grant of summary judgment, on reconsideration, as to the regarded as claim was appropriate, and the judgment is affirmed.
I. Facts and Background
In late 1997, appellant Delia Ruiz Rivera (“Ruiz Rivera”) began working, on a temporary basis, as a packaging operator in appellee Pfizer…
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