SAN FRANCISCO AP – A federal appealscourt agreed Tuesday to reconsider an earlier ruling that UPS Inc. discriminated against deaf employees by automatically barring them from driving parcel delivery trucks.
A 15-judge panel of the 9th U.S. CircuitCourt of Appeals will take up the case after a three-judge panel last year upheld a ruling that the Atlanta-based company’s practices violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. The smaller panel said the company had no right to automatically disqualify deaf or hearing-impaired drivers.
