Legal Opinion
Sands v. Runyon
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 1, 1994No. 770, Docket 93-6164PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACOBS, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff-Appellant Michael Sands applied to the United States Postal Service for employment as an operator of a letter sorting machine (“LSM”), and was rejected on the sole ground that Sands’s chronic knee pain rendered him medically unfit for the job. It is undisputed on appeal that the Postal Service’s determination constituted unlawful handicap discrimination in violation of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. §§ 701-797b (the “Rehabilitation Act”). The Postal Service ultimately hired Sands in February 1984, approximately nine months after wrongfully refusing…
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