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he Supreme Court has barred a retired firefighter from continuing a lawsuit against her former employer under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In a June 20 ruling, the justices held 8-1 that the retiree, Karyn Stanley, lacked standing to sue over the employer’s decision to discontinue a post-employment healthcare benefits progr
am.Why the plaintiff sued over retiree benefits. Stanley started working as a firefighter for the city of Sanford, Florida in 1999. By the time she retired in 2018 at age 47 due to complications from Parkinson’s disease, a program that would’ve covered most of her health insurance premiums until