· 1/16/1998
John Duda v. Board of Education of Franklin Park Public School District No. 84, John Barry, Dan Pietrini
Citations
- 133 F.3d 1054
- 8 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 99
- 39 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 1093
- 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 700
- 1998 WL 13231
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that an ADA-covered employee’s “allegation that he was forced to transfer to a new location and to work alone … is a clear claim of forced reassignment or of an unreasonable accommodation,” in violation of the ADA
- explaining that an amended pleading must be complete on its own and that the allegations in a superseded complaint are not considered by the Court.
- finding that such employees were not officials with final policy-making authority because they did not speak for the local government on official policy but reported to the board of education
- recognizing exception to right to amend once as a matter of course
- “Nothing in the School Code allows us to infer that a . . . principal has been delegated policymaking authority with respect to personnel decisions.”
- “[n]othing in the [Illinois] School Code allows us to infer that a superintendent or principal has been delegated policymaking authority with respect to personnel decisions”
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Judges: Wood, Ripple, Diane
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