MacEntee v. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES)

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “depression may qualify as a disability for purposes of the ADA” when it “substantially limits a major life activity”
• dismissing a failure to accommodate claim where the plaintiff requested a “patient trainer” from her employer, but did not mention that she needed one “because of her depression”
• “Defendants cannot be held liable for failing to provide reasonable accommodations when it had no actual or constructive knowledge of the need for any accommodations”
• it is “the employee’s responsibility to demonstrate to an employer that she needs an accommodation for reasons related to a medical condition disability”
• “[A] single, disability-related comment appears to be neither sufficiently severe nor pervasive enough to alter the terms of her employment.”
• “Title VII does not encompass claims for employment discrimination on the basis of disability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).