Juanita E. Foster v. Arthur Andersen, LLP

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that to recover under the ADA, an employee must demonstrate that impermissible discrimination was a motivating factor
• observing that the plaintiff’s disability need not be the “only reason” for the denial, but must be a “substantial factor”
• explaining that “to state a prima facie case of ‘failure to accommodate’ disability discrimination, a plaintiff who has suffered an adverse employment action must show that ... the disability caused the adverse employment action (a factor which is implied if not stated)”
• stating that “Foster would have to show more than just temporal proximity”
• including, as an element of a failure to accommodate claim, “the disability caused the adverse employment action”
• including in the prima facie failure- to-accommodate case the requirement that “the disability caused the adverse employment action (a factor which is implied if not stated)”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).