Where a jury found the defendant, a medical transportation services company, liable to a plaintiff job applicant under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the trial judge’s decision to grant the defendant judgment as a matter of law should be affirmed because no reasonable jury could conclude that there was a reasonable accommodation that would have allowed the plaintiff to perform the essential communications functions of the driver positions he sought without undue hardship to the defendant.
“In this Americans with Disabilities Act (‘ADA’) case, appellant … appeals from the district court’s grant of a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50(b) motion filed by Brewster Ambulance Service, Inc. (‘Brewster’) and entry of judgment as a matter of law (‘JMOL’) following the liability phase of a jury trial. Buccieri v. Brewster Ambulance Serv., Inc., 792 F. Supp. 3d 273, 283 (D. Mass. 2025). The jury had returned a verdict for Brewster on [the plaintiff]’s claim of failure to hire for a Chair Car Driver position, finding that Brewster had ‘prove[d] by a preponderance of the evidence that providing [the plaintiff] with the requested accommodation(s) would have been an undue hardship to Brewster Ambulance and/or posed a direct threat to [the plaintiff] or others.’ The district court held on the evidence presented no reasonable jury could conclude that Brewster had failed to engage in an interactive process as required by the ADA. …
“On de novo review, we affirm the district court’s...
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