Daniel Kimbro, Plaintiff-Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Atlantic Richfield Company, Defendant-Appellee/cross-Appellant

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• holding that an employee who suffered from migraine episodes was justified in requesting a temporary leave of absence as an accommodation for his disability where the leave would have allowed his doctor to formulate an effective treatment
• holding that an employee who suffered from migraine episodes was justified in requesting a tempo- rary leave of absence as an accommodation for his disability where the leave would have allowed his doctor to formulate an effective treatment
• employer could have accommodated employee suffering from cluster migraines by offering him a leave of absence
• “As long as a reasonable accommodation available to the employer could have plausibly enabled a handicapped employee to adequately perform his job, an employer is liable for failing to attempt that accommodation.”
• “[W]e note that whether a particular accommodation would have imposed an undue hardship on the employer is a question of fact.”
• “[T]he timing of a discharge may in certain situations create the inference of reprisal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).