Colwell v. Rite Aid 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 “the ADA contemplates that employers may need to make reasonable shift changes in order to accommodate a disabled employee’s disability-related difficulties in getting to work”
• noting that “[u]nder the ADA, an employer discriminates against an employee by not making ‘reasonable accommodations’” under certain circumstances
• Holding an employer cannot be faulted if the employee’s acts or omissions cause the breakdown of the interactive process
• noting that it is “proper to address ADEA and PHRA age discrimination claims collectively” (brackets and quotation marks omitted)
• holding in a reasonable accommodation claim brought under the ADA that employers need “enough information to know of both the disability and desire for an accommodation” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining elements of failure-to-accommodate claim, including that “the employee requested accommodations or assistance for his or her disability”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).