April L. Hudson v. MCI Telecommunications Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that leave for indefinite period was unreasonable accommodation under ADA and stating, “[the employer] was not required to wait indefinitely for [the employee’s] recovery”
• recognizing that though the plaintiff’s physician attested on the forms that the disability would not be permanent, unpaid leave was not reasonable because there was no evidence of the anticipated duration of her impairment
• stating that “a reasonable allowance of time for medical care and treatment may, in appropriate circumstances, constitute a reasonable accommodation”
• affirming grant of summary judgment in favor of employer where plaintiff “failed to present any evidence of the expected duration of her impairment as of the date of her termination.”
• because employee presented no evidence when she could “expect to resume her regular duties,” employer “was not required to wait indefinitely for her recovery”
• employee “failed to present any evidence of the expected duration of her impairment as of the date of her termination”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).