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CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE v. COMM. ON HUMAN RIGHTS & OPPORTUNITIES

176 Conn. 88 (1978)

CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND v. CONNECTICUT COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released September 5, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Overend, assistant attorney general, with whom, on the brief, were Carl R. Ajello, attorney general, Bernard F. McGovern, Jr., assistant attorney general, Philip A. Murphy, Jr., and Eva R. M. Thurman, for the appellant (defendant).

Brian Clemow, with whom, on the brief, was Brenda A. Eckert, for the appellee (plaintiff).

Sperry A. DeCew, as amicus curiae.

Bert N. Bisgyer and John Rose, as amici curiae.

David C. Shaw, Joan E. Pilver and Jonathan Lang, as amici curiae.

COTTER, C. J., LOISELLE, BOGDANSKI, SPEZIALE and PETERS, JS.

PETERS, J.

This is an appeal by the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities. The commission, acting on the complaint of a person handicapped by virtue of a visual disability, found that the Connecticut Institute for the Blind had unlawfully refused employment to the complainant, in violation of § 31-126 of the General Statutes. The Institute filed a petition to the Court of Common Pleas praying that this determination...

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