David L. White v. York International Corporation

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• holding that the plaintiff must show that accommodation is possible, the employer must then show inability to accommodate, and the plaintiff must then produce concrete suggestionsfor possible accommodations
• holding that a party relying on only conclusory allegations cannot defeat a properly supported motion for summary judgment
• holding that the plaintiff must demonstrate that the accommodation is possible, and affirming a grant of summary judgment to the defendant because the plaintiff had put forward no evidence demonstrating that the proposed accommodation was possible
• noting that the regulations only recommend that an interactive process occur, and only after the employee shows that reasonable accommodation is available
• noting that interactive process is triggered only after employer makes threshold determination that disabled employee may be accommodated
• saying that “unsupported allegations without any significant probative evidence tending to support the complaint” are insufficient to defeat summary judgment

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