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The Supreme Court decided three cases on June 22, 1999 that severely
curtail the scope of the Americans With Disabilities Act within the federal
sector. By identical votes of 7 to 2, the court ruled in Sutton v.
United Air Lines (97-1943: involving two nearsighted pilots) and in Murphy
v. United Parcel Service (97-1992: involving a mechanic with high blood
pressure), that when judges assess whether an employee who has filed
disability-bias complaint qualifies as "disabled" under the law,
they must take into account any measures that lessen the employee’s
impairment. By a unanimous vote, the court ruled in Albertsons v.
Kirkingburg (98-591: involving a truck driver blind in one eye), the
justices ruled that employers who set job qualifications based on federal
safety standards are not required to dispense with those standards when an
employee obtains a waiver from the federal agency. To get your own copies
of these decisions, please go to the following websites: http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/97-1943.ZS.html
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/97-1992.ZS.html
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