Legal Opinion
Crandall v. Paralyzed Veterans of America
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 30, 1998No. 97-7112PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
Paralyzed Veterans of America fired Donald Crandall for multiple acts of rudeness to fellow employees and outside groups working with Paralyzed Veterans. Crandall later disclosed to Paralyzed Veterans that he had been diagnosed as suffering from manic depression (or “bipolar disorder”), a disability that he claims caused his rudeness. He sued Paralyzed Veterans under § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794(a), alleging that it had discriminated against him “by reason of’ his disability, by firing him and by failing to reasonably accommodate…
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