Supreme Crt: ADA Protect CT Claim?

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases in which the principal issue is whether a worker with a repetitive trauma work place injury that prevents the worker from returning to his or her regular job qualifies for protection under the ADA when the company refuses to accede to the injured workers' request for a particular alternative work assignment. In Toyota Motor Corp. vs. Ella Williams (docket number 00-1089), the employee developed carpal tunnel syndrome in her wrists and tendonitis in her neck and arms from using pneumatic tools on the auto assembly line in a Kentucky plant. Sh...