DePaoli v. Abbott Laboratories

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1998-03-26

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DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge. Like many other workers in today’s highly specialized world, Janet DePaoli had to perform repetitive motions on her assembly line job. As a result, she developed tendinitis and tenosynovitis in her right hand. She twice underwent surgery for the condition and asked her employer, Abbott Laboratories, to give her a job that accommodated her medical restrictions. Abbott looked for non-assembly line j…

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