"The Company You Keep:" Association Discrimination Under the ADA

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What is Association Discrimination? 

Association discrimination is discrimination based on an applicant's or employee's relationship or association with an individual who has a disability.

 

A claim for association discrimination does not require that the claimant have a disability of his or her own. The ADA also does not require that the claimant have a family relationship with the individual with a disability...



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