REYAZUDDIN v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND

No. 14-1299.

789 F.3d 407 (2015)

Yasmin REYAZUDDIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND, Defendant-Appellee. American Council of the Blind; American Civil Liberties Union; Association on Higher Education and Disability; Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center; Disability Rights Advocates; Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center; Maryland Employment Lawyers Association; National Association of the Deaf; National Disability Rights Network; Public Justice Center, Inc., Amici Supporting Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: June 15, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Daniel Frank Goldstein , Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant. Karen Louise Federman Henry , County Attorney's Office for the County of Montgomery, Rockville, Maryland, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Joseph B. Espo , Matthias L. Niska , Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant. Marc P. Hansen , County Attorney, Patricia P. Via , Chief, Division of Litigation, Patricia Lisehora Kane , Associate County Attorney, County Attorney's Office for the County of Montgomery, Rockville, Maryland, for Appellee. Susan Mizner , Claudia Center , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, San Francisco, California; Amy Robertson , Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center, Denver, Colorado, for Amici Curiae.

Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge DIAZ wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge TRAXLER and Judge THACKER joined.


Montgomery County, Maryland, opened a new, consolidated call center using software that was inaccessible to blind employees. The County did not transfer employee Yasmin Reyazuddin, who is blind, to the call center along with her sighted coworkers. The County also did not hire her for a vacant position there. Reyazuddin challenged...

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