William Kelly v. Graphic Packaging International, LLC
EmploymentDiscrimina
Whether the Seventh Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1981a(c)(1) guarantee a jury trial when a plaintiff seeks compensatory or punitive damages for retaliation under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, precluding a district court from striking a timely jury demand and conducting a bench trial
1. Whether the Seventh Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1981a(c)(1) guarantee a jury trial when a plaintiff seeks compensatory or punitive damages for retaliation under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, precluding a district court from striking a timely jury demand and conducting a bench trial. 2. Whether a district court’s grant of summary judgment on ADA discrimination and accommodation claims —despite genuine disputes of material fact —and its later factual findings that the employer’s “ restriction -free” return -to-work rule violated the ADA, demonstrate the kind of credibility -laden disputes that Rule 56 and the Seventh Amendment reserve for a jury, requiring reversal. 3. Whether the Sixth Circuit violated Federal Rule 52(a)(6) and the Seventh Amendment by affirming a bench judgment that rested on credibility determinations a jury should have made after the district court erroneously denied Petitioner his jury right.