Jimmy W. Barber v. Nabors Drilling U.S.A., Inc. Nabors Loffland Drilling Company, Nabors Drilling U.S.A., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that an employee does not prove he can perform essential functions through accommodations if the only available accommodation is to relieve the employee of those functions
• explaining, in an ADA employment discrimination case, that an individual’s ability to perform non-essential job functions, with or without a reasonable accommodation, is irrelevant to whether the individual is “otherwise qualified”
• “We cannot say that [the employee] can perform the essential functions of the job with reasonable accommodation, if the only successful accommodation is for [the employee] not to perform those essential functions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).