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· 4/18/2007

Freadman v. Metropolitan Property & Casualty Insurance

Citations

  • 484 F.3d 91
  • 19 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 257
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 8823
  • 2007 WL 1144800

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that employer’s offering plaintiff a reasonable accommodation precludes him from now arguing “that the company should have offered something different”
  • holding that requesting an accommodation is protected conduct for a retaliation claim
  • explaining that requesting an accommodation is protected conduct for purposes of the ADA’s retaliation provision
  • explaining that a plaintiff’s request “must be sufficiently direct and specific,” and “must explain how the accommodation requested is linked to some disability” (quotation marks and citations omitted)
  • explaining that, while a request for a reasonable accommodation constitutes protected activity under the ADA, a request for time off may or may not constitute an accommodation request
  • explaining that in order for a request to comply with the ADA requirements, it “(1) must be sufficiently direct and specific, and (2) must explain how the accommodation requested is linked to some disability”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Boudin, Torruella, Lynch

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