This could only come from my hometown.
Judge says perfume lawsuit can proceed
A Detroit city planner says co-worker’s scent interferes with job performance, breathing.
DETROIT — A city of Detroit planner can proceed with her lawsuit alleging a co-worker’s perfume made it difficult for her to breathe and impossible to do her job, a federal judge has ruled.
In an opinion released late Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff rejected the city’s attempt to have Susan McBride’s lawsuit, filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act, dismissed.
McBride “has produced evidence that her breathing is significantly restricted” by a co-worker’s perfume, and she has a potential claim, Zatkoff ruled.
Both McBride’s Detroit attorney and the chairwoman of the Chemical Sensitivity Foundation said Wednesday that Zatkoff’s decision to allow the lawsuit to proceed is significant.
Grant Ha, the attorney representing the city in the lawsuit, did not return a phone call Wednesday. Ha said in a June court filing that “there is no medical diagnosis of the alleged condition,” and McBride “is not disabled because she is not substantially impaired in a major life activity.”
But Zatkoff, who sits in Port Huron, found that McBride’s difficulty breathing as a result of her co-worker’s perfume does present a potential claim under the federal law designed to protect the disabled from discrimination in public places and the workplace. He dismissed McBride’s claims that her chemical sensitivity also impairs her ability to shop for detergents, speak, interact with others, and reproduce.
There have been times I’ve passed some little old lady, or worse yet, some 50-something Mom obsessed with the fear of getting older dressed like a stripper whose smell nearly knocked me off my feet. I suspect Avon was the actual culprit, and maybe I should sue them for having such shitty smelling perfumes.
But to claim that it prevents you from reproducing is a bit out there, don’t you think?
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Once again common sense is tossed out the frickin’ window. So many stoopid people, what to do???
Um…buy more AMMO, Tim?
B.G.
BOBBY G!!
Lock & frickin’ load baby!
If a coworker smelled so bad that it affected my ability to do my job, I’d take it up with a supervisor. If that didn’t work, I’d retaliate by wearing too much Tag body spray. But I wouldn’t make a federal case out of it.
Tim, keep a bar of deordorant soap around. It should keep this Susan McBride person away like garlic does with Dracula.
I admit there is NOTHING worse than having some gag-you-in-the-throat scent that arrives at your nostrils FIVE MINUTES before the person wearing it shows up…
And heaven forbid if they stand in one spot too long…they leave a damn PUDDLE!
http://www.bundy-world.de/PDVD_018.JPG
if it smells like cologne- leave it alone?
giggle!