1st Circuit Reinstates Vision-Impaired Police Officer’s Disability Bias Suit

Mealey's (April 15, 2020, 1:54 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A trial court erred in granting summary judgment to a Massachusetts city and its police chief in a disability bias suit brought by an officer who was forced into retirement as a jury could find that the officer’s monocular vision did not prevent him from performing the essential functions of his job, a First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled March 24 (Carlos Melo v. City of Somerville, et al., No. 19-1337, 1st Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 9158)....