Reply #18: Interesting lawsuit.

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The ADA forbids discrimination for any disability or for any condition that someone could take for a disability or discriminate against, and businesses have to make reasonable accomadations for that disability. If anyone ever diagnosed her with a social disorder, she may have hit the jackpot. Even if not, she's got an interesting case.

This story was written so poorly, though, that it's impossible to know what the heck the story is about. They don't discuss whether the plaintiff's illness was diagnosed, or whether the monkey was suggest by medical professionals, or what exactly the county health officials said in their letters. Did they claim that the woman had no valid condition, or that the monkey was not a service animal, or that the monkey was a health risk around food sources, or all three of those things? If they claimed all three, Walmart can argue they were just following local official's orders, so I wonder if they are included in the suit just to force them to side against the local officials. They could testify that they wanted to let the monkey in the store, but were ordered not to, which would make the county look bad.

Just my random thoughts. Probably wrong, as always.