Law Humor

This TOTALLY Bites!

By John Mesirow

Robert Johnson REALLY wanted to be a telemarketer. The only problem? He is missing 18 teeth. But Johnson wasn?t going to let that stop him. He applied for a telemarketing position, went through three days of training, and received generally positive evaluations from the telemarketer. Everything seemed to be going so well... until Johnson was let go because he ?mumbled on the phone and was not a ?good match? for the job.?

So Johnson sued the telemarketer under the American?s with Disabilities Act (the "ADA"). Describing his condition as a ?cosmetic disfigurement consisting of some prominently visible absent front teeth,? Johnson claimed that his rejection was a pretext for discrimination. The federal district court didn?t buy the argument, so Johnson appealed.

What happened?

Full post as published by Legal Juice on March 30, 2008 (boomark / email).