Government and public statistics
Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams, 534 U.S. 184 (2002)
Supreme Court of the United States, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School, 2002
Read the originalRead on October 16, 2026
- What it is
- The Supreme Court opinion in a case brought by a Toyota assembly worker who claimed she was disabled because of carpal tunnel syndrome and related impairments. The Court reversed the Sixth Circuit's ruling in her favor.
- How much weight it carries
- Primary court text, reproduced by Cornell LII. The holding was superseded in part by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, which rejected the narrow reading of substantially limits, so the case shows the older standard rather than current law.
Facts taken from this source
- In Toyota Motor Manufacturing v. Williams (2002), the Supreme Court held that the Sixth Circuit had applied the wrong standard when it found that a worker with carpal tunnel syndrome was disabled under the ADA, and reversed that ruling.
“We conclude that the Court of Appeals did not apply the proper standard in making this determination” (Opinion of the Court)