I hope everybody had a great Fourth of July weekend.
Today’s blog entry deals with a couple of different questions. First, in a situation where a person can no longer do the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations, is reassignment mandatory or is it subject to open competition? Second, what
On June 20, 2025, the Supreme Court decided Stanley, which we discussed here. There is no need to go into the facts as we have already covered that previously. Accordingly, the blog entry is divided into the categories of: Justice Gorsuch’s majority opinion; Justice Gorsuch’s plurality opinion discussing how Title I might apply; Justice
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Today’s blog entry has been getting a lot of press on Law 360, which I subscribe to. It was brought to my attention by one of their journalists, Anne Cullen, who wrote an excellent article on it (
I wanted to tell everyone that my thoughts are with you with respect to weather-related disasters. California struggling terribly with the fires. The South got hit with winter storms. We had 4 inches of snow in Atlanta. Fortunately, it should all be gone by later this afternoon. Again, my thoughts are with everybody.
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Today’s blog entry explores an unpublished decision from the Sixth Circuit on April 29, 2024, that discusses some important points regarding reasonable accommodations. The case is Yanick v. The Kroger Company of Michigan, here. As usual, the blog entry is divided into categories, and they are: facts; what is sufficient notice from an employee
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This blog entry will be the last substantive blog entry of the year. The next blog entry for the calendar year will be my greatest hits and other
Today’s blog entry is not on an issue that I have blogged on previously. It deals with the question of what happens when a person leaves employment and was otherwise qualified during that employment, but after the employment ends, some discriminatory action occurs. Does title I apply since the person is no longer otherwise qualified/qualified?
If you have a team in the World Series tonight, good luck. My teams, the Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, or Chicago White Sox are not in it. So, I will just be watching for fun.
Today’s blog entry is the introduction of the Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act by Democratic Senator Duckworth of
Today’s blog entry discusses two different concepts. The first concept it discusses is what just does “transitory and minor,” mean for purposes of the regarded as exception and for purposes of what I mean when I keep talking about it as a great preventive law approach to deciding when a temporary disability might be protected