Gaston v. Bellingrath Gardens & Home, Inc.

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 plaintiff cannot establish a failure to accommodation claim without showing he or she demanded such an accommodation
• holding that “the duty to provide a reasonable accommodation is not triggered unless a specific demand for an accommodation has been made . . .”
• concluding that an employee’s “failure to demand a reasonable accommodation after being shown the new job requirements is fatal” to her failure-to-accommodate claim
• stating “an employer’s duty to provide a reasonable accommodation is not triggered unless a specific demand for an accommodation has been made”
• noting in context of Americans with Disabilities Act that \the duty to provide a reasonable accommodation is not triggered unless a specific demand for an accommodation has been made\
• observing “the EEOC’s interpretive guidelines, issued pursuant to its authority to issue regulations under the ADA, provide that ‘[i]n general ... it is the responsibility of the individual with a disability to inform the employer that an accommodation is needed.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).