Adams v. Alderson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that employee’s proposal that he be distanced from the supervisor who allegedly caused his stress disorder was unreasonable because “[a]n agency is entitled to assign its personnel as the needs of its mission dictate”
• where plaintiff employee’s mental handicap led him to engage in a violent assault upon a supervisor followed by a destructive rampage through the office, plaintiff was not “otherwise qualified” for the position and thus not entitled to the protection of the Rehabilitation Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Weiler v. Household Finance Corp.
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-11-27· cited 82×
• Lewis v. Zilog, Inc.
  N.D. Georgia· 1995-09-05· cited 59×
• Weigert v. Georgetown University
  District of Columbia· 2000-09-07· cited 46×
• Timothy Mayo v. Pcc Structurals
  Ninth Circuit· 2015-07-28· cited 36×
• Palmer v. Circuit Court of Cook County, Soc. Serv.
  N.D. Illinois· 1995-10-30· cited 33×
• Snyder v. Medical Service Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1999-12-02· cited 30×
• Mazzarella v. United States Postal Service
  D. Massachusetts· 1994-03-18· cited 23×
• Mancini v. General Electric Co.
  D. Vermont· 1993-03-15· cited 16×
• Barbera v. DiMartino
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1997-12-04· cited 7×
• Belton v. Shinseki
  District of Columbia· 2017-03-23· cited 5×
• Calef v. The Gillette Co.
  First Circuit· 2003-03-12· cited 4×
• Weiler v. Household Finance Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-11-27· cited 2×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Southeastern Community College v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-11· cited 1,381×