In his eight-page opinion in Poyner v. Good Shepherd Rehab, U.S. District Judge Bruce W. Kauffman dismissed claims under the ADA and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act brought by a woman who said that after she took short-term disability leave, she was told she would have to re-apply for her job if she wanted to return.
“Because plaintiff has produced no evidence other than defendant’s knowledge of her disability leave, she has failed to establish that defendant regarded her as having a disability,” Kauffman wrote.
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