WATSON v. LITHONIA LIGHTING

No. 02-1423.

304 F.3d 749 (2002)

Tamara WATSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LITHONIA LIGHTING and National Service Industries, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 20, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Ayers (argued), Wernle, Ristine & Ayers, Crawfordsville, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

James D. Masur, II (argued), Locke Reynolds, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

In July 1997 Tamara Watson went to work on the assembly lines of Lithonia Lighting in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Ten months later she suffered a shoulder injury that restricted her ability to perform the repetitive motions characteristic of assembly-line work. Lithonia assigned Watson a series of tasks that she remained able to complete. In June 1999 Watson's physician informed Lithonia that she would never again be able to perform any tasks...

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