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222808P.pdf 08/25/2023 Roby Anderson v. KAR Global
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 22-2808
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Kelly, Author, with Gruender and Arnold, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Americans with Disabilities Act. There was a genuine issue of
material fact as to whether plaintiff had been terminated because of his
disability and in retaliation for requesting an accommodation, and the
district court erred in granting the employer's motion for summary
judgment; the decision came ten days after the decision makers learned of
plaintiff's disability, and this temporal proximity was sufficient to
establish causation at the prima facie stage for plaintiff's disability
and discrimination claims; further, a reasonable jury could conclude that
the decision maker looked into plaintiff's job performance only after she
had learned of his disability and accommodation request and had decided to
terminate him; reversed and remanded for further proceedings.