§

Complainant, v. Bill Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Tennessee Valley Authority, Agency.

0120093256_0120111968 (E.E.O.C. Feb. 20, 2015)
Complainant, v. Bill Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Tennessee Valley Authority, Agency.

9 Cited authorities

  1. McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green

    411 U.S. 792 (1973)   Cited 53,213 times   96 Legal Analyses
    Holding in employment discrimination case that statistical evidence of employer's general policy and practice may be relevant circumstantial evidence of discriminatory intent behind individual employment decision

  2. St. Mary's Honor Ctr. v. Hicks

    509 U.S. 502 (1993)   Cited 12,391 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a trier of fact may infer discrimination upon rejecting an employer's proffered reason for termination

  3. U.S. Postal Service Bd. of Govs. v. Aikens

    460 U.S. 711 (1983)   Cited 2,419 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that because "[t]here will seldom be `eyewitness' testimony to the employer's mental process," evidence of the employer's discriminatory attitude in general is relevant and admissible to prove discrimination

  4. Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Echazabal

    536 U.S. 73 (2002)   Cited 339 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the ADA's direct-threat defense may apply not only to “other individuals in the workplace,” as the statute states, but to the disabled individual himself

  5. Heyman v. Queens Village Comm. for Mental Hlth

    198 F.3d 68 (2d Cir. 1999)   Cited 280 times
    Finding that an employer could "regard as" disabled an employee who had lymphoma where the employer had knowledge of employee's diagnosis and a previous employee had died from the same disease

  6. Lawson v. CSX Transportation, Inc.

    245 F.3d 916 (7th Cir. 2001)   Cited 217 times
    Holding that the plaintiff's diabetes and related medical conditions, which affected “many of the organ systems in his body,” were physical impairments under the ADA

  7. Cook v. Rhode Island, Department of Mental Health, Retardation, & Hospitals

    10 F.3d 17 (1st Cir. 1993)   Cited 145 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that employer regarded plaintiff as disabled where employer believed that plaintiff's impairment foreclosed broad range of employment options in relevant industry

  8. Swanks v. Washington Met. Area Transit

    179 F.3d 929 (D.C. Cir. 1999)   Cited 50 times
    Observing that an employer "`may not obtain summary judgment by declaring it has a policy when [the employee] may have evidence that [the employer] follows the policy . . . selectively'" (quoting Baert v. Euclid Beverage, Ltd., 149 F.3d 626, 632 (7th Cir. 1998))

  9. Appendix to Part 1630 - Interpretive Guidance on Title I of the Americans With Disabilities Act

    29 C.F.R. § 1630, app to Part 1630   Cited 875 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Determining whether an individual is substantially limited in a major life activity entails the nature and severity of the impairment; the duration or expected duration of the impairment; and the permanent or long term impact