Before getting started on the blog entry for the week, last week, the Federal Bar Association blog posted my piece on the interactive process. It’s an unusual piece of writing in that it talks about the step-by-step approach to the interactive process AND the psychological overtones of the process. Again, as I mentioned in that
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ADA Pleading Tips
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Happy new year everybody. Hope everybody enjoyed their holiday and is now raring to get back to work. Just to give everybody a heads up, the week of January 28 and February 3 may not see a blog entry for me at all. During those two weeks, I will be testifying in two different trials…
Just Don’t go There or Even Hint at it: Alleging working as the Major Life Activity
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I am back from the Windy City. We had a good time. We did the family thing. We got some time to ourselves as well. The weather was not too bad.
Before moving on to the blog entry of the day, my wife and I are huge Queer Eye fans. A new season of…
Does the ADA encompass a hostile work environment claim?
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Does the ADA encompass a hostile work environment claim? (I have mentioned hostile environment before but that was in the context of the Office of Civil Rights and education). According to the Northern District of Oklahoma in Callahan v. Communication Graphics, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 172148 (N.D. Okla. December 12, 2014), the answer…
Is Alcoholism a Disability: Revisiting Miners v. Cargill Communications and the importance of pleadings
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Ever since the first edition of my book in 2000 and in every edition since, I have discussed the case of Miners v. Cargill Communications, Inc., 113 F.3d 820 (8th Cir. 1997). That case illustrates the perils of what can happen when an employer perceives someone as being an alcoholic. In that case, the…