<ul><li>A former employee of Chicago’s Metra commuter rail service failed to show that the organization violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it suspended him for a failed drug test.</li><li>The plaintiff, in Hoffstead v. Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corp., tested positive for amphetamines and opioids during a mandatory random drug test.</li><li>The plaintiff was not considered for an identical job opening at Metra despite his attempts to exercise seniority rights to obtain the position.</li><li>The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that disability was not the reason behind the adverse employment actions against the plaintiff.</li></ul>

Failure to timely explain positive drug test dooms ADA claim, 7th Circuit holds

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