Before getting started on the blog entry of the week, I want to congratulate the United States Soccer Men’s National Team on a valiant effort at the World Cup. Hopefully, a harbinger of good things to come. Also, things in
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Mandatory Reassignment and Interpreting What it Means for the Major Life Activity of Working to be Substantially Limited
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend.
Before getting started on the case of the day, I wanted to let everyone know that I have updated two blog entries in the Understanding the ADA blog. First, last week’s blog…
California Appellate Court Holds Persons Who Associate With Persons With Disabilities Can Have Batson Challenges Exercised on Their Behalf
Previously, such as here, I have written about how Batson/Edmonson challenges could be used with respect to people with disabilities not being allowed to serve on juries. The interesting thing about Batson and its civil equivalents is that whenever…
Failure to Accommodate: What is Sufficient Notice to an Employer and How Much Documentation Can be Requested
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…
Major Life Activities as Essential Functions and What That Means for Test Takers Trying to get into Those Jobs
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,…
§501 and §504 Causation are Not the Same and Honest Belief Rule Has its Limits
I was alerted to today’s case, Bledsoe v. Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors, a published decision from the Sixth Circuit decided on July 27, 2022, by Jon Hyman, the person behind the Ohio Employers’ Law Blog, who blogged on…
Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act
If you have a team in the World Series tonight, good luck. My teams, the Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, or Chicago White Sox are not in it. So, I will just be watching for fun.
Today’s blog entry is…
Interactive Process Obligation Continues Through Litigation
Today’s blog entry deals with the question of whether the interactive process continues through any litigation and whether evidence of that interactive process taking place or not taking place when the case is being litigated can be brought into evidence.…
Title III Standing Undoubtedly Headed to Supreme Court
Today’s blog entry come from the First Circuit, Laufer v. Acheson Hotels, LLC, here. It discusses standing and creates a split in the circuits. Undoubtedly, this issue will go before the Supreme Court. The facts of the case are…
Applicability of ADA’s Title II Primary Consideration Rule for Effective Communication to title III of the ADA, the ACA, and to §504
Before getting started on the blog entry of the week, I want to wish the members of the Jewish faith celebrating Yom Kippur this week a pleasant fast if you are fasting’s as well as a pleasant end to the…