Jury Returns $5.2 Million Verdict Against Wal-Mart In EEOC Disability Bias Suit

Mealey's (October 14, 2019, 9:35 AM EDT) -- MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin federal jury on Oct. 10 issued a $5.2 million verdict against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores East L.P. (collectively Wal-Mart), finding that they violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), by failing to provide a deaf and visually impaired employee with a reasonable accommodation and firing him (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., et al., No. 17-739, W.D. Wis.)....

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