City Discriminated against Fire Captain for Perceived Disability

Cpt. Shayn Proler's colleagues told supervisors at the Houston Fire Department that he seemed afraid to go into fires. After Proler froze during a building fire in March 2006, the department transferred him to its training academy and refused his requests to be transferred back to a fire-suppression unit.As it turned out, Proler suffered global transient amnesia, a temporary but almost total disruption of short-term memory. And on Thursday, a divided Texas appellate court upheld a jury verdict that found the Houston Fire Department violated the Americans with Disability Act by reassigning ...