Jeff Knutson v. Schwan's Home Service, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, even though the plaintiff claimed to rarely drive a delivery truck in his position, being “qualified to drive a delivery truck [was] an essential function of [the plaintiff’s] position”
• noting that an accommodation is unreasonable if it requires an employer to \reassign existing workers to assist [the employee] in his essential duties.\ (alteration in original) (citation omitted)
• concluding plaintiff’s testimony that he did not need to drive a delivery truck to manage a depot was insufficient to raise a genuine issue of material fact
• finding DOT certification was essential function where managers had to drive DOT trucks “from time to time”
• affirming summary judgment in favor of Schwan’s, holding Schwan’s was not required to waive DOT license certification in order to accommodate home delivery driver who became vision impaired
• “Eliminating the essential job function of being DOT qualified would be an unreasonable accommodation.”

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