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Seven lawsuits say Giant Eagle’s mask policy violates the Americans with Disabilities Act
WTAE (Pittsburgh) ^ | 5/26/20

Posted on 05/27/2020 1:05:26 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

Seven lawsuits were filed against Giant Eagle on Tuesday, alleging the supermarket chain’s mask policy violates the Americans With Disabilities Act.

One of the plaintiffs is Nicholas Conley, of Verona, who said he was told to leave the Monroeville store on May 1 because he wasn’t wearing a mask, although he had a medical excuse.

Conley shot video of the incident on his phone.

Police were called and Conley was charged with causing a disturbance and other offenses.

Conley said a Giant Eagle worker told him his medical excuse was “fake.”

Gov. Tom Wolf ordered masks to be worn in businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic but allowed for people with medical reasons to exempt.

Private businesses can make their own policies.

Pittsburgh's Action News 4 received a statement from a Giant Eagle spokesperson in early May, saying Conley appeared to have an agenda and people with a medical condition can have an employee shop for them, use curbside pickup or be given a courtesy mask.

Each of the seven lawsuits comes from a different plaintiff and some of the other stores named include the Allegheny Township and McKeesport locations.

Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 reached out to a Giant Eagle spokesperson about the lawsuits.

That spokesperson said the supermarket chain is actively reviewing the complaints and is currently unable to comment.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: lawsuits; maskfascists; monroeville
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Video at link. Gov Wolf has conducted himself like a world class idiot when it comes to handling the "pandemic". On the other hand is Nicholas Conley looking for a payout in the lawsuit lottery? I can imagine ambulance chasers like Morgan and Morgan "have you or a loved one been denied service for not wearing a mask due to a medical condition? If so you may be entitled to significant compensation." . Conley's Dr's note excusing him from wearing a mask does say TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW . AMD the employees seemed willing to get his groceries for him. Seems like he doesn't have much of a case.
1 posted on 05/27/2020 1:05:26 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

So don’t go. Or have a note from your doc.

FFS, these people act like babies.


2 posted on 05/27/2020 1:06:59 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Impala64ssa

I’m more impressed that in a town like Pittsburgh that is overrun with Democrat Lawyers they could find some to take their cases.


3 posted on 05/27/2020 1:07:08 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Impala64ssa

Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 received a statement from a Giant Eagle spokesperson in early May, saying Conley appeared to have an agenda and people with a medical condition can have an employee shop for them, use curbside pickup or be given a courtesy mask.


Someone tell me what I’m missing here. If you can’t wear a mask to do shopping due to a medical condition, they will give you a courtesy mask? They will give a courtesy mask to someone who can’t wear the mask? Am I reading this right, or do I not under understand corporate policy language?


4 posted on 05/27/2020 1:07:59 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Impala64ssa
This happened to me. I've had asthma my whole life and simply can not wear a mask and walk around the stores. Just look on the Harrisburg,PA Health Dept. web site about the mask policy and it clearly states that if you can not wear a mask you do not have to,and no doctors note is required. I told this to a manager at Giant Eagle and he yelled in my face "I don't give a F#@k!"
5 posted on 05/27/2020 1:11:36 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Freedom.....where is she?)
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To: Vermont Lt

If we’re social distancing we don’t need the stupid masks.


6 posted on 05/27/2020 1:11:44 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: Impala64ssa

These governors could be accomplices to mass illnesses from those mandated to wear the masks. . .CO2 and germ inhalation. I am sure that everyone wearing a mask is using the necessary precautions. . . Yea, right! Tell me another one. I’ve seen people throw them around, bring them down off their faces touching the mask itself and you know very well the majority don’t clean them and then there are those filters???? Are all these precautions going to be tax deductible?


7 posted on 05/27/2020 1:11:53 PM PDT by Maudeen (The Rapture . . . Separation of Church and State)
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To: Vermont Lt
So don’t go. Or have a note from your doc. FFS, these people act like babies.

Exactly. It's a private company. Shop elsewhere. Shopping in a supermarket for 30 minutes and being in contact with an infected person for 2 minutes, once a week, is not likely to make you sick. WORKING in that market for 8 hours a day and being exposed to hundreds of people every day is far riskier. Retailers have an obligation to protect their employees.

8 posted on 05/27/2020 1:17:12 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: ETCM

Ordinarily I would agree with you - shop somewhere else. Unfortunately, in the Pittsburgh region, Giant Eagle has a near monopoly. There aren’t a whole lot of alternatives.


9 posted on 05/27/2020 1:21:44 PM PDT by bagman
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To: DLfromthedesert

YOU don’t need it, but that 50 year old cashier needs you to put it on.

Either wear it or don’t. A private company doesn’t have to ask you “mother may I?”

Find a new place to shop.

#maskbabies.


10 posted on 05/27/2020 1:22:15 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: ETCM

Or use curbside pick-up or delivery. Giant Eagle offers delivery.


11 posted on 05/27/2020 1:22:31 PM PDT by EBH (May God Save Our Freedom from our enemies within)
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To: Impala64ssa
Wolf was wrong.

The supermarket was wrong.

The pigs were wrong.

Enough of this fascism.

12 posted on 05/27/2020 1:23:42 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: Vermont Lt

It’s not a store policy it is a government policy.

It is not like he can shop somewhere else right now.


13 posted on 05/27/2020 1:23:48 PM PDT by EBH (May God Save Our Freedom from our enemies within)
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To: Vermont Lt

It is mandated by the government. Has nothing to do with the store.

I live in CLE and shop Giant Eagle. No mask required here.


14 posted on 05/27/2020 1:25:02 PM PDT by EBH (May God Save Our Freedom from our enemies within)
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To: Vermont Lt

Go read the F’n constitution. Maybe you can tell me where the “get a note from your doctor” clause is.


15 posted on 05/27/2020 1:25:26 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: Vermont Lt

So the churches which sued the Oregon governor are babies, huh?


16 posted on 05/27/2020 1:26:21 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Vermont Lt
Ah, so you drank the "respect others" Kool-Aid...


17 posted on 05/27/2020 1:28:25 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: 4yearlurker
"This happened to me. I've had asthma my whole life and simply can not wear a mask and walk around the stores."

If you can't have products delivered and don't have someone to shop for you, wear masks a little loose. If you wear glasses, wear masks snug across the top and looser at the bottom.

18 posted on 05/27/2020 1:28:31 PM PDT by familyop (Hell hath no fury like a scorned parrot.)
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To: ETCM

Apparently you don’t give a crap about freedom. The government was pushing this issue. The supermarket was also wrong for incorrectly enforcing an unconstitutional order. The police were wrong with enforcing an unconstitutional order. This type of actions and thinking has ruined America.


19 posted on 05/27/2020 1:30:38 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: bagman
Wally World is everywhere, including 3 within a 10 mile radius of where I live. There is also Shop'n'Save, 5 within a 10 mile radius.

I happen to like Giant Eagle (4 within a 10 mile radius) the best because of their curbside pickup service which allows you the opportunity to totally avoid jerks of this nature.

20 posted on 05/27/2020 1:34:02 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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