(March 1, 2017, 11:28 AM EST) -- CHICAGO — A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Feb. 27 upheld the firing of a Wisconsin Department of Health Services employee following multiple absences, some to care for her own health and some to care for a family member, finding that the employee failed to show that she was an “otherwise qualified” employee, as required by the Rehabilitation Act (Joyce Whitaker v. Wisconsin Department of Health Services, No. 16-1807, 7th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 3446). ...