Butler v. Burroughs Wellcome, Inc.

ORDER

TERRENCE WILLIAM BOYLE, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on plaintiff’s motion for a protective order, and defendant’s motion to compel discovery and for sanctions.

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This action was brought on June 2, 1995, alleging that defendant failed to reasonably accommodate plaintiffs psychiatric disorder in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq. Almost a year earlier, on August 17, 1994, plaintiff brought an action in state court alleging the same facts underlying this case constituted tortious infliction of emotional distress.…