Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Chevron Phillips Chemical Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a doctor’s note requesting an exception or adjustment to an employer’s practices may serve as a request for an accommodation
• holding that the employer’s obligation to engage in the interactive process only arises after employee meets initial burden of specifically identifying her disability-related limitations
• recognizing that relapsing-remitting conditions like multiple sclerosis can constitute a disability
• holding request for accommodation is protected activity for purposes of retaliation claim under Americans With Disabilities Act
• stating that once employee requests accommodation and suggests reasonable accommodations, employer must engage in interactive process
• finding that a sleeping disorder can qualify as a substantially limiting impairment for the purposes of the Americans with Disabilities Act because “sleeping and thinking are major life activities”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).