Gratzl v. Office of the Chief Judges of the 12th, 18th, 19th & 22nd Judicial Circuits

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that an employer must only “make reasonable accommodations to the known physical and mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual” (quoting 42 U.S.C. § 12112(b)(5)(A)) (emphasis added)
• finding that an employee who refused an ADA accommodation that satisfied ADA design requirements “for personal reasons” could not demonstrate that the employer failed to reasonably accommodate her disability
• requiring other employees to perform plaintiff’s essential functions is not reasonable accommodation and is not required by ADA
• finding an employer has no duty to “create a new job or strip a current job of its principal duties to accommodate a disabled employee”
• explaining a “qualified individual” can “perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• upholding requirement that court reporters rotate through various live courtrooms, as well as the control room, in order “to evenly distribute the workload that varied with each courtroom”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).