Replies

Hi. You're deaf, I'm a lawyer, and I'm gonna use you to make me rich.

3 posted on 10/10/2006 1:01:45 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (* nuke * the * jihad *)

To: the invisib1e hand

Hi. You're deaf, I'm a lawyer, and I'm gonna use you to make me rich.

Hi. You're a deaf UPS driver, and I'm a different lawyer, and I'm going to use you to make me rich, too.

Shame about the dead toddler, tho...

13 posted on 10/10/2006 1:07:30 PM PDT by gridlock (The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)

To: the invisib1e hand

From the article:

"Each deaf person has to be assessed individually to make a determination, just like a hearing person, as to whether they can safely drive a UPS truck," he added. "That's all we ever asked."

The dispute centered on UPS's custom of denying hearing-impaired workers jobs operating delivery trucks weighing under 10,000 pounds. - end quote

Indeed I have a hearing disability (no two are exactly alike) and mine is helped with a hearing aid -

Flame away at lawyers, etc however IMO if they are making a blanket rule to not even test out a prospective driver - under the Americans with disabilities Act they may well have a valid case of overt corporate discrimination?

14 posted on 10/10/2006 1:07:55 PM PDT by VRWCTexan (History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)

To: the invisib1e hand

No case like this should be allowed unless the plantiffs use deaf counsel, and no judge should be allowed to rule unless he is also deaf.

24 posted on 10/10/2006 1:13:28 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)

To: the invisib1e hand

Hi. You're deaf, I'm a lawyer, and I'm gonna use you to make me rich.

I am hearing impaired, and I have been driving for 30 years without a moving accident or a moving violation. My father drove for more than 50 years while completely deaf without an accident or moving violation. I know many hearing impaired and deaf people with near perfect driving records. On the other hand, I know many people with near perfect hearing who can't drive out of a parking lot without hitting something.

The court did not tell UPS that it had to hire every hearing impaired person who applies for a job, but rather, that UPS could not automatically exclude applicants from consideration simply because they're hearing impaired. The court's decision is consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and while we can debate whether the ADA is a good law or a bad law, the undisputed fact is that it is the law. For once, the 9th Circuit applied the law as written without allowing judicial advocism to run amok.

52 posted on 10/10/2006 1:51:54 PM PDT by Labyrinthos

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794