Dock Timmons v. General Motors Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employer’s failure to accommodate an employee’s disability, thus forcing the employee to go on an involuntary medical leave, was an adverse employment action
• noting that “at the time he was placed on leave, [the plaintiff] was failing to meet [his employer’s] legitimate expectations” and, therefore, could not establish this element of his prima facie case
• finding that due to diminishment in the plaintiff employee's material responsibilities, \[p]lacing ....[him] involuntarily on disability leave was an adverse employment action[]\
• noting that the similarly-situated inquiry for disability discrimination claims overlap with the pretext inquiry
• finding there was no evidence suggesting that employer took adverse action because of employee’s “disability rather than his inability to perform critical aspects of the job”
• affirming district court’s grant of summary judgment to employer because plaintiff could not produce “evidence suggesting [the employer’s] decision to place him on leave was based on his disability rather than some other job-related reason”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).