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
Searls v. Johns Hopkins Hospital
Major Life Activities as Essential Functions and What That Means for Test Takers Trying to get into Those Jobs
By William Goren on
Today’s blog entry deals with two decisions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dealing with essentially the same fact pattern. One decision, Williams v. MTA Bus Company, here, is a published decision decided August 12, 2022, while the other decision, Frilando v. New York City Transit Authority is a summary…
Does an ASL Interpreter Mean that Person is Doing the Essential Functions of Another’s Job and Other Matters
By William Goren on
This case was pointed out to me by a member of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Bar Association, of which I am a member, on its facebook page, which is where most of the communication for the Association occurs. This case raises several interesting issues: 1. Does hiring a person to be an ASL…