11th Circuit:  Hiring Inadequate Interpreter Not Intentional Discrimination

Mealey's (August 19, 2021, 10:41 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — Hiring an unqualified interpreter might be negligence, but it isn’t intentional discrimination against a deaf woman, a panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Aug. 17 in affirming summary judgment on the woman’s emotional damages claim brought under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)....