Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Judith Keane, Intervening v. Sears, Roebuck & Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a reasonable jury could find that a plaintiffs neuropathy, which prevented the plaintiff from walking more than' one city block, was a substantial limitation compared to the walking that most people do daily
• concluding that a reasonable jury could find that the employer caused a breakdown of the interactive process even though the employee quit where, prior to the employee’s departure, she made several requests for accommodation
• holding that a reasonable jury could find that a plaintiff’s neuropathy, which pre- vented the plaintiff from walking more than one city block, was a substantial limitation compared to the walking that most people do daily
• concluding that a reasonable jury could find that the employer caused a breakdown of the interactive process even though the No. 06-1986 Page 5 employee quit where, prior to the employee’s departure, she made several requests for accommodation
• noting that “the ADA requires that em- ployer and employee engage in an interactive process to determine a reasonable accommodation”
• holding district court erred in granting summary judgment to employer in finding plaintiff caused the breakdown in the interactive process

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).