Ellen Fjellestad v. Pizza Hut of America, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• emphasizing that the regulations provide an illustrative, rather than exhaustive, list of major life activities
• emphasizing that “employer will not be held liable under the ADA for failing to engage in an interactive process if no rea sonable accommodation was possible”
• explaining that an employer cannot “sit back passively, offer nothing, and then, in post-termination litigation, try to knock down every specific accommodation as too burdensome” (citation omitted)
• Finding that the failure of an employer to engage in an interactive process to determine whether reasonable accommodations are possible is prima facie evidence that the employer may be acting in bad faith.
• Finding that the failure of an employer to engage in an interactive process to determine whether reasonable accommodations are possible is prima facie evidence that the employer may be acting in bad faith.
• noting that plaintiff has been unable to secure other employment since her termination as factor in finding triable issue as to whether plaintiff is substantially limited in the major life activity of working

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).