Melvin Burns v. Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. Knoxville Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “nothing in the ADA requires an employer to abandon its legitimate, nondiscriminatory company policies defining . . . entitlements to intra-company transfers.”
• “nothing in the ADA requires an employer to abandon its legitimate, nondiscriminatory company policies defining . . . entitlements to intra- company transfers.”
• “Employers are not required to . . . displace existing 6 employees from their positions . . . in order to accommodate a disabled individual.”
• Burns “became aware of several vacant positions at KCC. He did not, however, apply for any of the positions”
• “Employers are not required to create new jobs, displace existing employees from their positions, or violate other employees’ rights under a collective bargaining agreement or other non-discriminatory [company] policy.”
• “Employers are not required to create new jobs, displace existing employees from their positions, or violate other employees’ rights under a collective bargaining agreement or other non-discriminatory policy in order to accommodate a disabled individual.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).