This week’s blog entry is an update on a previous blog entry and a discussion of the recent Supreme Court decision in Comcast, which involves the causation standard for §1981. Of course, what we are interested in is whether Comcast necessarily means the Supreme Court will decide but for causation is the standard for ADA
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Okay Boomer at the Supreme Court and What Does That Have to do with the ADA
I am not sure about blog entry times for the next couple of weeks. Next week, I will be attending and speaking at the Accessibility Professionals Association conference in Round Rock, Texas. Sometime within the next two weeks, I will be testifying as an expert witness in a trial in Houston. So, not sure when…
Failure to Accommodate, Direct Evidence, and Adverse Action
Today’s blog entry is going to be my last substantive blog entry of the year. My daughter is on break the last two weeks of December, and just about everybody takes the Christmas season off anyway. The very last blog entry of the calendar year is when I traditionally do my top 10 Understanding the…
Is Causation Under Title I But For Causation? Ninth Circuit Says Yes; I Say No
Before starting on today’s blog entry, I do want to wish a speedy recovery to Justice Ginsburg. Regardless of your political views or your jurisprudential views, you can’t argue that Justice Ginsburg is not one of the legal titans of the late 20th and early 21st century. Wishing her a speedy recovery.
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Causation Under ADA and Rehabilitation Act and a Bonus: LGT Goes to Supreme Court
Hope everyone had a happy Easter and, as in my case, a happy start to the Passover holiday. Today’s blog entry come from one of the blogs that is in my blog roll, Wait a Second. The case is Natofsky v. The City of New York decided on April 18, 2019 out of the Second…
Interaction Between FMLA and ADA: A Whole Lot Going on
The best weekend in sports is no doubt the first and second round of the NCAA basketball tournament. I hope your bracket survived. The UMBC VA game was amazing (even my 14-year-old daughter was into it), and there were plenty of other upsets along the way as well. I am in two pools (brother and…
Can Employees Trust Human Resources? Maybe That’s Not the Right Question? Timing of Reasonable Accommodation Request and Causation under the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act Are Not the Same
Robin Shea’s latest blog entry, which can be found here. Discusses some of the things people say about HR, including: “HR protect the company’s interests, not yours;” “if you go to HR, HR reports the complaint back to the manager and then you are labeled a malcontent;” “I have yet to see a human…
EEOC v. Abercrombie and Fitch stores Inc.: How does it Apply to the ADA?
My schedule has been topsy-turvy lately. That is why you are seeing posting of the blog on different days than typical. I am also going out of town over the weekend and be back early in the week, and so my next blog will also be later in the week. The weekend after next, I…
Obesity, International law, and the ADA
I want to wish everyone a happy holiday, whether it be Hanukkah or Christmas or another holiday being celebrated this season. In keeping with the international spirit of the season, I thought I would focus this blog entry on international law.
Starting in the first edition of my book and continuing in all the subsequent…