7th Circuit Reinstates Claims By Fired Worker Who Says Alcoholism Was Disability

Mealey's (June 20, 2019, 11:53 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois “erred by demanding too much specificity” in a race and disability bias complaint by a former water treatment plant worker who claims that he was fired because he is black and suffers from alcoholism, a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled June 14, vacating the trial court’s judgment as to the bias claims and remanding for further proceedings (Shaka Freeman v. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, No. 18-3737, 7th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 17933)....