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GELABERT-LADENHEIM v. AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.

No. 00-2324.

252 F.3d 54 (2001)

Lisa GELABERT-LADENHEIM, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 12, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond L. Sanchez Maceira, with whom Melba Rivera Camacho was on brief, for appellant.

John F. Suhre, with whom Gwendolyn Young Reams, Associate General Counsel, Philip B. Sklover, Associate General Counsel, and Vincent J. Blackwood, Assistant General Counsel, were on brief, for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, amicus curiae.

Angel Castillo, Jr., with whom Kara S. Nickel and Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius LLP were on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Unlike other areas of discrimination law where the protected status of the plaintiff (e.g., race or gender) is usually not at issue, the law of disability discrimination often presents a threshold question of whether a plaintiff is in fact disabled. This question frequently arises when the plaintiff is suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome ("CTS"), an affliction that can result from repetitive motion...

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