In a 5-2 decision, the Maryland Court of Appeals reversed the Court of Special Appeals and found that a parent who sufered from an allergy to latex was discriminated against by her child’s preschool for its failure to accomodate her condition by refusing to use non-latex products in its diaper changing of the child and in other respects. The court held that the condition was a disability that the school had not reasonably accomodated.

The dissent agrees that parenting is a “major life activity” but questions the “reasonable accomodation” analysis of the majority.