A federal judge in Illinois sided with the Cook County Sheriff’s Office last week in a disabilities lawsuit brought by a former courthouse deputy with Type I diabetes who claimed he wasn’t given necessary social distancing accommodations for his disability during the COVID-19 pandemic.
U.S. District Judge Keri L. Holleb Hotaling for the Northern District of Illinois granted summary judgment to Cook County and Sheriff Thomas J. Dart after concluding that the essential functions of a courthouse deputy require officers to be within close proximity to other people, and that the plaintiff, Nicholas Adduci, could not perform those functions under the restrictions his physicians outlined, according to an April 26 opinion.
