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Federal circuit courts are split over whether former employees may sue their employers under the ADA for discrimination in the provisions of post-employment benefits. Two say they can; four say they can’t. Yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to resolve the matter.
It will do so at the request of a woman who, after more than two decades of service, had to retire from her job as a firefighter because of advanced-stage Parkinson’s disease progressed to a stage. She brought an Americans with Disabilities Act claim that her former employer had a discriminatory benefits policy that treated disabled retirees worse than