Lawyers who represent disabled plaintiffs in discrimination cases are sure to welcome an Appellate Division ruling that says mastectomy patients are amputees and therefore a protected class under the Law Against Discrimination.
Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Nicholas Stroumtsos ruled in 2000 that the LAD did not protect a mastectomy patient who had been cancer free for six years. He dismissed the plaintiff’s claim that her employer failed to make accommodation for her disability and denied her a promotion.
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