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Reasonable Accommodation
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San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Teacher Awarded $2 Million in Americans with Disabilities Act Trial
Michael Fox (not the actor) writes a nice blog on employment law from the employer's perspective at: http://employerslawyer.blogspot.com/. He wrote recently about a jury result in Madison, Wisconsin. A jury…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Reasonable Accommodation Requires More
How much accommodation is enough? There is surprisingly little caselaw on the subject. Most issues arising under the old ADA concerned whether a person was truly a person with disability.Now…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
Lawsuit by Deaf Employee Based on Failure to Provide Sign Language Interpreter Sent to Jury
In a recent decision involving a deaf employee’s professed need for a sign language interpreter to understand and participate in mandatory departmental meetings, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously…
California Employment Law
ADA Demands Are Greater Than Many Realize
In 2001, UPS hired Mauricio Centeno as a junior accounts payable clerk at its facility in Glendale, CA. Centeno is deaf and has been since birth. His primary language is American Sign…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Reasonable Accommodations Case
As anyone who has read more than one or two ADA cases knows, the vast majority of litigation has focused on whether a person is a qualified individual with a…
Fair Housing Defense
Reasonable Accommodations and Parking
I get questions concerning handicapped parking spots regularly. The easy answer to parking space questions is that designating a specific spot as a handicapped parking place with appropriate signage in response…
Alabama Employment Law Report
ADA claims hit all time high
In February, 2009, I wrote that "I anticipate the courts, especially the District Courts, will be busy in 2009 and 2010. They will be busy looking at the ADAAA, the…
Colorado Homeowners Association Law
The Fair Housing Act – The Handicapped Person; Reasonable Modifications and Reasonable Accommodations
We routinely receive questions related to fair housing issues in common interest communities. Many community association directors and community association managers are aware that both the federal and state Fair…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Reorganizing Away the Duty of Reasonable Accommodation?
Under the ADA, a qualified individual whose disability required easy access to restrooms might typically have to be accommodated by assignments to places with such access. For example, a court reporter…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Getting to Work
An early ADA decision, Lyons v. Legal Aid Society, 68 F.3d 1512 (2d Cir. 1995), suggested that the statute might have some effect beyond the employer's front door, holding that an employer might…