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Garland's Digest
on employment discrimination law
online since 1997
 

 

Disclaimer: The Treatise is based upon federal appellate court decisions from 1996 to 2008. We are currently in the process of updating the Treatise. Until that update is complete, it is possible that certain cases cited in the Treatise may no longer represent current law.

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Chapter 13 - Disability Discrimination
13.200 Disability
13.250 Cases addressing particular medical impairments or conditions
13.251 List of impairments or conditions

13.251.21 Meniere's disease

8^th Circuit

Plaintiff suffering from Meniere's disease was not disabled with respect to the major life activity of working. Perkins v. St. Louis County Water Co., 160 F.3d 446 (8th Cir. 1998).

9^th Circuit

In EEOC v. United Parcel Service, Inc., 424 F.3d 1060 (9th Cir. 2005), the court held, in a case under California state law, that persons with monocular vision seeking truck driving jobs with UPS were disabled with respect to the major life activities of seeing and working.