It is that time of the year for the greatest hits of 2024. The greatest hits section of the blog contains the top 10 for the year as well as certain other blog entries that are not in the top 10, but I feel are very important to know are out there. Here goes the
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Interactive Process is a Continuing Obligation and Just What is an Adverse Action
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(Decision immediately above in adobe format for this week’s blog entry)
Gavina v. Amazon.com-Word version
(word version of case immediately above)
I hope everyone is having a great holiday season. The way it looks for me is I believe I’m going to get two blog entries up this week and then…
Roadmap for Dealing With Failure to Accommodate Claims at Summary Judgment
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Today’s blog entry discusses a case, Tornabene v. City of Blackfoot, here, out of the United States District Court for the District of Idaho that is set for trial on February 24, 2025. The decision denying summary judgment on the disability discrimination claims came down on September 11, 2024. The case presents an excellent…
How a Business Should NOT Go About Accommodating a Person with a Disability
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This week’s blog entry is a how to for what NOT to do if you are a business faced with an accommodation request. The case of the day is Patterson v. Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc., here, decided on November 15, 2024, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.…
Interactive Process, Retaliation, and Interference in Title III
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I hope everyone that celebrated had a good new year season. Wishing all of those a happy new year. In other news, early election voting is underway in many states. My family voted yesterday. Be sure to vote for the candidate of your choice.
Today’s blog entry returns to a long-standing interest of mine.…
Won the Game But Lost the Right Tackle: EEOC v. Walmart Stores East, L.P.
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Our blog entry of the day reminds me of the situation where a team wins the football game but loses a key player in the process. I thought of that when reading EEOC v. Walmart Stores East, L.P., here, decided by the Seventh Circuit on August 27, 2024. As usual, the blog entry is…
Roadmap for Dealing with Emotional Support Animals Matters
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Posted in ADA, Fair Housing Act, General, Guidances, State Cases, State Statutes, Title II, Title III
This may very well be a week with two blog entries for three reasons. First, there is the blog that will be the subject of this blog entry. Second, if I have this figured right, this is the last week that the Supreme Court has for issuing opinions before their summer recess. I am particularly…
Mandatory Reassignment: The View From the Fifth Circuit
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One of the hot areas in title I of the ADA is the question of whether an employer has a mandatory duty of reassignment to a vacant position where the employee is no longer qualified per the ADA for that position. The circuits are split on that, so it is just a matter of time…
Title I Tutorial: King v. Stuart Trumbull Memorial Hospital Inc.
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I have quite a stack of cases in my pipeline to blog on. When I went digging through them, I came across a decision from April 7 of 2022 (that isn’t a misprint). The case is King v. Stuart Trumbull Memorial Hospital, Inc., a published decision from the Sixth Circuit, here, and it has…
Interactive Process Obligation Continues Through Litigation
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Today’s blog entry deals with the question of whether the interactive process continues through any litigation and whether evidence of that interactive process taking place or not taking place when the case is being litigated can be brought into evidence. The case is Kovachich v. Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, here, decided…