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SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT v. EDNA KRABAPPEL

SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT v. EDNA KRABAPPEL

A formal statement of jurisdiction has been omitted by the Rules of the First Year Moot Court Competition.

Plaintiff-Respondent Edna Krabappel ("Respondent") was employed as an elementary school teacher by Defendant-Petitioner Springfield School District ("Petitioner") from approximately June 1994 until February 1998 when Petitioner's Principal, Seymour Skinner ("Skinner") terminated her services. Since she was a child, Respondent has suffered from bronchial asthma, which as an adult she has always controlled through the use of prescription medications. At the time she was hired she told Skinner that her controlled asthma would not interfere with her teaching.

Due to improper medication, she suffered an asthma attack in early February 1998 in front of her students. Prior to then she had never suffered an asthma attack while employed by Petitioner. While she was absent from work, she was replaced with another teacher. Skinner told Respondent that her services had been terminated because her asthma prevented her from being an effective teacher and frightened and upset many of her students.

On February 28, 1998, Respondent filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") alleging that she had been discriminating against on the basis of a disability. After receiving a right-to-sue letter from EEOC on March 17, 1998, she filed a civil action in Federal District Court against Petitioner for monetary damages for violation of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ("ADA"), 42 U.S.C. secs. 12101-12117 (1997).

On September 6, 1968, the District Court granted Petitioner's Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure on the ground that Respondent had failed as a matter of law

to show that she was 'disabled' within the meaning of ADA. The District Court determined that,...

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