COURTNEY v. AMERICAN NAT. CAN CO.

No. 94-183.

537 N.W.2d 681 (1995)

Neal D. COURTNEY, Appellant, v. AMERICAN NATIONAL CAN CO., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 20, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roxanne Barton Conlin of Roxanne Conlin & Associates, P.C., Des Moines, for appellant.

Thomas W. Foley of Nyemaster, Goode, McLaughlin, Voigts, West, Hansell & O'Brien, P.C., Des Moines, for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and LARSON, CARTER, NEUMAN, and TERNUS, JJ.


TERNUS, Justice.

Defendant, American National Can Company (ANC), reassigned plaintiff-employee, Neal D. Courtney, to a lower-paying job after discovering that Courtney was legally blind in one eye. Courtney then sued ANC for disability discrimination. After a bench trial, the district court reached three conclusions: (1) Courtney had a disability; (2) Courtney's disability rendered him unqualified for his former position; and (3) ANC reasonably accommodated Courtney...

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