Obesity and the ADA

By Martha Zackin on October 3, 2012

My colleague, David M. Katz, was recently quoted in a National Law Journal article titled The Obesity Problem is Growing. For more information on this evolving issue, click here.

Employment Quote of the Week

“[C]laims for sex discrimination and retaliation pursuant to [Massachusetts law] may be combined to support a plaintiff’s claim only when the discriminatory acts emanate from the same discriminatory animus … No such single animus is presented [where] the alleged retaliatory conduct appears to stem from a distinct intent to punish or to rid a workplace of someone who complains of unlawful practices ... [Combination] claims have ... generally involved discrimination based upon a combination of identity characteristics (i.e., sex and race) which intersected to create a discrete protected group, rather than discrimination based upon the combination of a protected characteristic and protected conduct … The former claims are more likely to be motivated by a single animus.” District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton in Sauer v. Belfor USA Group, Inc., No. 15-cv-11882 (D. Mass. Sept. 7, 2016).

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