The Blog of William D. Goren, J.D. LL.M.
First off, I want to thank everyone who voted for me for the 2016 ABA blog 100. It has been two years in a row for Understanding the ADA, and I am keeping my fingers crossed for a third. Thanks again everyone!
Turning to the topic of the week, about a week or so ago…
Before moving on to today’s case, the nominations for the 2016 ABA legal blawgs 100 are now open. The nomination form can be found here. The deadline is August 7, which is this Sunday. It has been a distinct honor and privilege to be a member of this distinguished group for the last two…
I am back from a week of doing the family thing in Chicago. Of course, I need a vacation. That said, nothing like relaxing by putting up a new blog entry. That said, for reasons I don’t know when I pasted the entry from word into the appropriate box in word press (word press is…
You may be asking why didn’t I blog yesterday or so far this week. The answer is I actually spent two hours trying to put a blog together yesterday. The blog was going to cover the Department of Justice Accessibility of Web Information and Services of State and Local Government Entities Supplemental Amended Notice of…
Just about everyone on the Internet and in the blogosphere is talking about the filing of Coach Sarkisian’s disability discrimination lawsuit against University of Southern California. All kinds of folks have blogged on it already. Normally, since all kinds of folks have blogged on it, many doing it quite well, I would refrain from commenting.…
This is an update to the blog entry that I previously posted. I am revising it because upon further review, it is NFL season after all (Go Falcons!; Go Cubs too!), I realized that confusion was created over when the amendments to the ADA went into effect versus when the final regulations of the ADA…
Today’s case raises the point that an EEOC charge needs to cover the claim. Further, don’t assume that just because there is a prior EEOC charge on file that a subsequent claim will be automatically covered. The case is Martinez v. University Medical Center. The case also has some other interesting points in it…
In a comment to this blog entry, I discussed the panel decision of the Sixth Circuit in EEOC v. Ford Motor Company where the panel held that telecommuting was a reasonable accommodation. Before proceeding further, I want to thank Jon Hyman for alerting me through his blog that the en banc decision came down…
In a previous blog entry, I discussed how a company could do an excellent job of defending litigation over what are essential functions of the job. This particular blog entry deals with the opposite scenario, where the company does not do a very good job at all of accomplishing that task. The case is…
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What is a good faith interactive process?
The ADA requires an interactive process whenever a person with a disability gives the employer, governmental entity, or business notice (broadly defined), that they are in need of reasonable accommodations/modifications as a result of a disability. What would a good faith interactive process look like in the…