· 9/24/1998
Donna Hendricks-Robinson, Penny Moore, Teresa Westlake v. Excel Corporation
Citations
- 154 F.3d 685
How courts have described this case
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- holding that it was a genuine issue “whether the injured employees knew that the jobs in which they initially were placed were truly temporary or whether they could consider the jobs a reasonable accommodation for their impairments”
- noting that “the temporary nature of a light-duty program should not be adjudged by the absoluteness of the time period in which an injured employee may participate”
- refusing to grant summary judgment to an employer because it may not have participated in good faith in finding accommodation
- finding that a question of fact remained for trial as to whether the light-duty jobs were actually reserved for those individuals needing temporary accommodations of their disabilities or whether the jobs had been treated as permanent positions
- Refusing to grant an employer summary judgment because it may not have participated in good faith in finding accommodations
- Refusing to grant an employer summary judgment because it may not have participated in good faith in finding accommodations
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Judges: Flaum, Easterbrook, Ripple
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