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Amazon is facing a disability discrimination lawsuit from a New Jersey warehouse worker who was fired for using medical marijuana.
The lawsuit, by a plaintiff identified as D.J.C., was filed in Middlesex County Superior Court in October and removed to federal court Friday. The Amazon filing comes just as the state Supreme Court is poised to take up the issue of medical marijuana in the workplace.
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Charles Toutant
Charles Toutant is a litigation writer for the New Jersey Law Journal.
