Lori L. Vande Zande v. State of Wisconsin Department of Administration, James R. Klauser, Lee Martinson

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• holding that the periodic characteristic disabling manifestation is part of the underlying recognized disability
• holding that \an employer is not required to expend enormous sums in order to bring about a trivial improvement in the life of a disabled employee\
• recognizing that Congress was \unwilling to confine the concept of disability discrimination to cases in which the disability is irrelevant to the performance of the disabled person's job\
• holding that pressure ulcers, which were the result of paralysis, were \intermittent impairment[s] that [are] a characteristic manifestation of an admitted disability\ and therefore were covered by the ADA
• holding that employer may prove undue hardship by establishing that the costs of the proposed accommodation are excessive in relation either to its benefits or to the employer's financial health or survival
• stating that, to be “reasonable,” the cost of an accommodation should not be disproportionate to the benefit

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