Aquinas v. Federal Express Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that poor work attendance was \unrelated to\ plaintiff's medical condition
• finding that plaintiffs proposal for reasonable accommodation “amounts to a request for permission to work only when her illness permits,” and that such request “necessarily undermines the policy of regular attendance that is essential to her job.”
• finding plaintiff unqualified in light of the fact that “her rate of absenteeism was, at all relevant times, unacceptable under existing company standards.”
• accepting Fed Ex strict attendance policy due to time-sensitive nature of job
• “the ADA protects only a limited class of persons — individuals who suffer from impairments significantly more severe than those encountered by ordinary people in everyday life”
• “the ADA protects only a limited class of persons—individuals who suffer from impairments significantly more severe than those encountered by ordinary people in everyday life”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).