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- Title: Bush v. Commonwealth Edison Co.
- Author : Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 05, 1993
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
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POSNER, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff in an employment discrimination case, a black man named Jay Bush, appeals from the grant of summary judgment in favor of his former employer, Commonwealth Edison Company. The appeal presents issues under several statutes. Commonwealth Edison hired Bush in 1978 as a repairman in the transportation department of Edison's Chicago South Division. For four years all went well. Then in June 1982 Bush injured a knee while working and was placed on restricted duty for a couple of weeks. In December of the following year he reinjured the knee, and required surgery and extensive physical therapy. Edison imposed medical restrictions on him (such as no climbing or heavy lifting) that prevented him from performing the regular duties of his repairman's job. He was given light work to do in the department. After surgery and extensive physical therapy, he was able to resume almost all the duties required of a repairman. But after he balked at performing certain assigned tasks on the ground that they required more bending and kneeling than he could safely do, the company referred him to an orthopedic specialist who in July 1985 advised the company to place Bush in ""a permanent sitting position."" Concluding that Bush would never recover sufficiently to resume his repairman's work, Edison transferred him to a lower-paying clerical position (primarily involving filing) in the Customer Service Department of the Chicago South Division. This transfer was made shortly after and, Bush contends, because he had filed a workers' compensation claim against Edison (on which he eventually prevailed) in connection with the December 1983 reinjury of his knee, which Edison had contended was not a work-related accident.
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