John Byrne v. Avon Products, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the request to “not work[] for an extended time” is not a reasonable accommodation for severe depression
• holding “that an employee's inability to communicate his illness to his employer. . . may constitute constructive notice of a serious health condition.”
• suggesting that two months employee spent away from work for treatment for mental difficulties would not qualify as reasonable accommodation because “[i]nability to work for a multi-month period removes a person from the class protected by the ADA”
• suggesting that two months employee spent away from work for treatment for mental difficulties would not qualify as reasonable accommodation because “[i]nability to work for a multi-month period removes a person from the class protected by the ADA.”
• limiting the term “reasonable accommodation” to those measures that will enable the employee to work and distinguishing those accommodations from employees who cannot perform the essential functions of their job and therefore are not “qualified individual[s]” under the ADA
• knowledge element satisfied where employer knows of the employee's need for leave, even if employee does not mention statute or demand its benefits

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).