Alston v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

How courts have described this case

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• placing burden on employee raising Rehabilitation Act claim to show “that a reasonable accommodation was possible”
• noting that the plaintiff “bears both the burden of production and the burden of persuasion on the question whether a suitable vacancy existed at the time [she] sought transfer” (quoting Jackan v. N.Y. State Dep’t of Labor, 205 F.3d 562, 567 (2d Cir. 2000))
• “[P]laintiff bears both the burden of production and the burden of persuasion on the question [of] whether a suitable vacancy existed at the time she sought transfer.”
• “Once an employee has requested reassignment, the employer has a duty to engage in an interactive process with the employee to determine whether there is a job she can perform given her limitations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).