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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Employment Discrimination

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MATTHEW MCLAUGHLIN,

Plaintiff,

v.

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC.,

Defendant.

Case No. 18-cv-00442-VC 

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR 

SUMMARY JUDGMENT

Re: Dkt. No. 35

1. For the reasons stated on the record, UPS is entitled to summary judgment on 

McLaughlin’s federal and state claims arising from his December 2016 termination. McLaughlin

presented no evidence that he was fired for anything other than showing up to work intoxicated 

two months earlier; therefore, as a matter of law he didn’t meet the definition of a person with a 

disability. See 42 U.S.C. § 12114; Brown v. Lucky Stores, Inc., 246 F.3d 1182, 1186 (9th Cir. 

2001); Collings v. Longview Fibre Co., 63 F.3d 828, 833 (9th Cir. 1995); Zenor v. El Paso 

Healthcare System, Ltd., 176 F.3d 847, 855-56 (5th Cir. 1999); cf. 2 C.C.R. § 11071(d)(A); 

Lopez v. Pacific Maritime Ass’n., 657 F.3d 762, 764 (9th Cir. 2011); Gosvener v. Coast Corp., 

51 Cal. App. 4th 805, 813 (1996). In particular, a statement by a UPS employee expressing 

concern that McLaughlin would come to work intoxicated again is not evidence that he was fired 

for some different reason; it is precisely this concern that animates the applicable exclusion.

2. Also for the reasons discussed at the hearing, UPS is entitled to summary judgment on 

McLaughlin’s claims that prior to his workplace misconduct, he was denied an accommodation 

because UPS did not affirmatively get him help.

3. UPS’s motion for summary judgment on the remaining retaliation and wrongful 

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termination claims is granted because those claims are derivative of the aforementioned 

dismissed claims.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 12, 2019

______________________________________

VINCE CHHABRIA

United States District Judge

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