Charles Nesser v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.

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• finding that the employee’s poor attendance, which was due to his Crohn’s disease, prevented him from performing an essential function of his job, and that the employee failed to make a facial showing that reasonable accommodation was possible
• “[The defendant] considered attendance to be an ‘essential function’ of each of [the plaintiffs] positions with [the defendant].”
• “It is clear that Nesser, who suffers from 11 Crohn's disease, is disabled within the meaning of the ADA.”
• plaintiff is required to “make a facial showing that reasonable accommodation was possible” and then the burden shifts to the employer to show that it was unable to accommodate him
• under ADA, plaintiff must first make “facial showing that reasonable accommodation was possible”
• declining to decide whether working at home may be reasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).