{"id":4738,"date":"2015-01-15T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4738"},"modified":"2015-01-04T11:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T17:00:43","slug":"shareholder-corporation-loses-employee-standing-lawsuit-disability-discrimination-ada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/shareholder-corporation-loses-employee-standing-lawsuit-disability-discrimination-ada\/","title":{"rendered":"Shareholder in Corporation Loses Employee Standing in Lawsuit for Disability Discrimination Under the ADA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Linda Bluestein was a shareholder in Central Wisconsin Anesthesiology S.C. <\/a>and a member of its board of directors. After losing the vote that terminated her employment contract, Bluestein filed a lawsuit against the corporation for allegedly violating three statutes that protect \u201cemployees.\u201d Those statutes were the Americans with Disabilities Act <\/a>(ADA) and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act <\/a>of 1964. The presiding federal judge concluded, however, that Bluestein was an employer of the corporation and not an employee. The court granted Central Wisconsin\u2019s motion for summary judgment disposing of her lawsuit.<\/p>\n

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago affirmed the trial judge\u2019s order and applied the \u201cnon-exclusive list of six factors\u201d that the U.S. Supreme Court adopted in Clackamas Gastroenterology Associates, P.C. v. Wells, 538 U.S. 440 (2003), as criteria for determining whether a shareholder qualifies as an employee under statutes that don\u2019t provide a \u201cworking definition\u201d of the word.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Court of Appeals tangled with the question of determining the meaning of the term \u201cemployee.\u201d The Supreme Court reasoned that, when the statute (ADA) does not provide a working definition, the courts should turn to the common law test for determining who qualifies as an employee. Clackamas Gastroenterology Associates, P.C. v. Wells, 538 U.S. 440 (2003).<\/p>\n

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