Alvaro Orosco v. Jamal K. Dabbous

**Worker's Disability Discrimination Case Dismissed Against Individual Manager** Alvaro Orosco filed a disability discrimination lawsuit against Jamal K. Dabbous, claiming violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Orosco alleged that Dabbous discriminated against him because of his disability while he was employed. The court dismissed the case entirely. The judge ruled that Dabbous could not be held personally liable under the ADA because he was an individual person rather than a qualifying employer. The ADA only applies to employers with 15 or more employees, and individual supervisors or managers typically cannot be sued directly under this law, even if they made the discriminatory decisions. This ruling is important for workers to understand because it shows the limitations of federal disability discrimination laws. If you face disability discrimination at work, you generally need to sue the company itself, not individual managers or supervisors. The ADA protects workers from discrimination, but only when the employer meets certain size requirements and other legal standards. Workers experiencing disability discrimination should focus their legal claims on the employer as an entity rather than trying to hold individual employees personally responsible under federal law.