LAW & ODOR!
Judge claims she was suspended for being stinky, incontinent & fat
AN OBESE New York judge who admits she stinks, pooped in a court and suffers oozing leg sores claims she was suspended for her medical problems and is now suing to get back on the bench!
White Plains City Court Judge Elizabeth Shollenberger, 62, who has worked only two months since her January 2017 appointment to the ten-year gig, says her rights are being violated under the Americans with Disabilities Act because she suffers cardiopulmonary lung disease, foul-smelling fungal infections in her lower limbs and is dangerously overweight. She also claims occasional public incontinence has made her the butt of courthouse jokes!
Legal documents say court staffers first raised a stink after Shollenberger, who was alone in her courtroom on May 1, 2017, couldn’t make it to a toilet in time and “defecated in a plastic-lined wastepaper basket.” The papers say she accidentally left behind “a small stain about the size of a quarter” on the carpet.
Her suit claims the incident caused “a hysterical reaction,” with workers cordoning off the room with yellow police tape, signaling it was “some sort of crime scene or the site of some horrendous health hazard.”
Then the next day, a clerk appeared wearing rubber dishwashing gloves and Shollenberger says she saw “three people entering her cordoned-off courtroom with full hazmat gear.”
“There was no legitimate purpose to this other than to stigmatize plaintiff because she is disabled, by sensationalizing the incident and turning it into a spectacle,” declares the suit.
Afterward, Shollenberger — who was appointed to the bench after years as a local political powerhouse — was suspended from May 2017 to July 2018. When she returned to work, courthouse employees “complained of unpleasant and offensive odors” from her leg infection, leading to a second suspension that her suit calls a “stigmatization” of her as a disabled person.
But one disgusted court worker says, “She would come in and we would see the diarrhea running down her leg and to the floor!”
The Office of Court Administration insists Shollenberger’s second suspension was “for her personal and the public’s health and safety.”
She used wastepaper basket as toilet -legal documents