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Blind man files discrimination suit against Lee County after not being hired Bill Smith, Fort Myers News-Press
A legally blind man has filed suit against Lee County claiming that he was discriminated against because of his disability when he was not hired for a position at the Pine Island branch library.
Michael Phelps filed suit Feb. 15 in U.S. District Court, claiming violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Florida Civil Rights Act. The action claims that he has applied several times with the county but has not been hired.
Phelps previously worked in a public library in West Virginia for six years, according to the lawsuit. The suit said he submitted several job applications for a job as a library associate at the Pine Island branch of the county library system.
Struck by fate, neglected by governments: Travails of visually-impaired pupils in Nigerian public schools
Alexander Okere
Uduak Esin strode towards an old couch in the sitting room and sank into it quietly. She reached out for her phone on a wooden stool and slowly checked whether she had missed calls or had unread messages from relatives and friends. Despite her visual impairment, one could tell that she knew her way around the apartment, with her calculative movements, and loved the freedom she had to do certain things by herself.
“I don’t depend on my mother to do things for me. I wash my clothes myself. I cook myself and do other things myself,” she said with an aura of clairvoyance as though she sensed that our correspondent might attempt to guide her subsequently.