Nelson v. Thornburgh

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a federal department with a $300,000,000.00 budget cannot claim that it would endure undue financial hardship when required to accommodate its handicapped employees
• requiring the hiring of readers as a reasonable accommodation for blind employees
• “[T]he provision of readers is an express HHS example of reasonable accommodation.” (Internal quotation marks and brackets omitted.)
• “[T]he provision of readers is an express HHS example of reasonable accommodation.” (Internal quotation marks and brackets omitted.)
• failure to accommodate and hire handicapped persons imposes a significant cost on American society and the American economy
• section 504 creates private right of action for damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).