Kathleen Borkowski v. Valley Central School District

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a permanent aide could be a reasonable accommodation if not performing the essential functions of the position
• observing that the plaintiff has “the burden of identifying an accommodation, the costs of which, facially, do not clearly exceed its benefits”
• explaining that plaintiff can prove that she can perform without accommodations or that “an accommodation exists that permits her to perform the job’s essential functions”
• “[M]eeting the burden of non-persuasion on the reasonableness of the accommodation and demonstrating that the accommodation imposes an undue hardship amount to the same thing.”
• requiring a Rehabilitation Act plaintiff to show that she needed an accommodation to retain her employment and that such an accommodation existed
• holding, in the context of the analog Rehabilitation Act, that “an individual is otherwise qualified for a job if she is able to perform the essential functions of that job, either with or without a reasonable accommodation” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).