Leath v. Mcassey

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 employee did not demonstrate her termination was because of her disability where the employee failed to show that her employer knew of her disability
• holding a later offer to reinstate the plaintiff with even more accommodations did not show pretext by decisionmakers at the time of the termination
• finding that whether the employee was a “qualified individual” within the meaning of the ADA was a “close question” where there was evidence that the employer agreed to give the employee accommodations after reinstating her
• noting ADA Title I plaintiff “must have exhausted her administrative remedies as to that claim before filing suit”
• describing the elements of the prima facie cases for wrongful termination and failure to accommodate claims under the ADA
• finding no prima facie claim where the employer was unaware of the plaintiff’s disability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).