This week’s blog entry considers the Society for Human Resource Management answer to the complaint of Fiona Torres in her case saying SHRM violated the ADA by not allowing her to have her service dog when it rescinded a conditional job offer. In the interest of full disclosure, many years ago I did speak to
Owens v. State of Georgia Governor's Office of Student Achievement
EEOC v. William Beaumont Hospital Redux
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This week’s blog entry will be the last substantive blog entry of the calendar year. As mentioned previously, I will put up the greatest hits of 2025 for the Understanding the ADA blog the week of Christmas.
Turning to the blog entry for the week, on November 19, 2025, the United States District Court…
EEOC v. Army Sustainment LLC: A Bunch of Stuff to be Aware of
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Before getting started on the blog entry of the day, I wanted to point out that the White House issued a memorandum detailing how agencies should go about Internet accessibility. The document, which can be found here, is basically a best practices guide for executive agencies with respect to their Internet sites. Of particular…
Privileges and Benefits Part II and Other Matters
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Today’s blog entry is a case that many bloggers are blogging about. As y’all know, I am not afraid to blog on cases that others have blogged on if I feel I can offer my own perspective. This case certainly fits the bill. The case is the 11th Circuit published decision, here, Beasley…
Privileges and Benefits Part I: Hopman at 8th Circuit
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Hope everybody had a great Memorial Day weekend. This week’s blog entry begins a two-part series talking about how the ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability when it comes to offered privileges and benefits. In this week’s blog entry, we will talk about the recent Eighth Circuit decision, here, in Hopman v.…
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…
Why the Distinction Between Deaf and deaf Matters: EEOC Guidance on Hearing Disabilities in the Workplace and the ADA
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Sometimes you have a blog entry all ready to go in your mind. You are even rehearsing the outline of it in your mind. However, something then intervenes and you feel compelled to blog about something else. This is exactly what happened to me for the blog entry of this week. I had been outlining…
Failure to Accommodate: What is Sufficient Notice to an Employer and How Much Documentation Can be Requested
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In numerous blog entries, we have talked about how magic words are not required. We have also talked about staying away from requests for excessive documentation. The question is how do the two work together. A published decision from the 11th Circuit decided on November 9, 2022, Owens v. State Of Georgia, Gov.’s Office…