The Americans with Disabilities Act

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The paper discusses the case Eckles v. Consolidated Rail Corporation, United Transportation Union International and United Transportation Union Local 1963, which was heard by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in 1996. In this case the Circuit Court upheld the lower court's ruling in favor of the defendants. Eckles had brought suit under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) provisions against the defendants claiming they failed to make reasonable accommodation for his disability.

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"Terry Eckles filed a suit against the Consolidated Rail Corporation and included as parties to his suit both the local and the national offices of his representative union, the United Transportation Union claiming that both the company and the union violated his rights awarded to him under the Americans with Disabilities Act (AD). Essentially, Eckles was demanding that both the company and the union had failed to provide, in the company's case and failed to support, in the union's case, his right to reasonable accommodations under the ADA regarding his epilepsy."

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