Janet M. Turner v. Hershey Chocolate USA

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 must first make a “facial showing that [the] proposed accommodation is possible”
• holding that whether an employee could perform the essential functions of a job with accommodations was a factual question for the jury
• observing that a disabled employee must make a prima facie showing that a proposed accommodation is possible before the burden shifts to the employer to prove that the accommodation is unreasonable or unduly burdensome
• finding that plaintiff’s statements in a social security benefits application did not judicially estop her in a subsequent ADA action where she proposed reasonable accommodation requests, which were not accounted for by the Social Security Administration
• finding employers are not required to provide a reasonable accommodation that “would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the business of the [employer].”’
• declining to decide as a matter of law that a function was not essential even though five of the seven factors in 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2(n)(3) favored that conclusion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).