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· 3/13/2003

Mark Wood v. Charlie Green, Clerk of Circuit Court for Lee County, Florida

Citations

  • 323 F.3d 1309
  • 14 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 100
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 4470
  • 2003 WL 1090412

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that requesting an indefinite leave of absence is unreasonable as a matter of law
  • concluding that a request for an indefinite leave of absence to recover from cluster headaches was not a reasonable accommodation although employer had previously granted such requests
  • holding that an employer's willingness to grant prior leaves of absence did not make a future indefinite leave of absence reasonable because \prior accommodations do not make an accommodation reasonable\
  • holding that an employee’s request of “an accommodation of indefinite leaves of absence so that he could work at some uncertain point in the future . . . was not reasonable”
  • explaining that a leave of absence may be reasonable if it would allow the employee to “perform the essential functions of their jobs presently or in the immediate future”
  • explaining that, “while a leave of absence might be a reasonable accommodation in some cases,” a request for “indefinite leaves of absence” contem- plating a return to work “at some uncertain point in the future” was not reasonable

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Judges: Dubina, Hill, Cox

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