Cheryl A. Gile v. United Airlines, Incorporated

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff was entitled to broader discovery so that she could show she was qualified for vacant positions
• describing what a plaintiff must show in order to demonstrate entitlement to reassignment, without mentioning a requirement that he show he would have been awarded the position over all other applicants
• An employer “may [be] require[d] . . . to reassign a disabled employee to a different position as reasonable accommodation where the employee can no longer perform the essential functions of their current position.”
• “When an employee requests a transfer as reasonable accommodation and the employer offers alternative reasonable accommodation, which the employee then refuses, the employer cannot be liable for failing to reasonably accommodate the employee ... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).