Nicholas Keith v. County of Oakland

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• holding that the employee may survive summary judgment when he can “[meet] his burden to show that a reasonable accommodation was possible”
• observing that the employee’s “initial burden” also requires that the proposed accommodation be “efficacious” and “proportional to costs” in the “run of cases” concerning the position (citation modified)
• “According to the regulations, ‘essential functions’ refer to job duties that are ‘fundamental’ rather than ‘marginal.’”
• noting that the individualized inquiry is a “threshold” one
• finding a genuine issue of fact as to a lifeguard's qualifications where evidence in the record indicated he may have successfully been able to perform his job even given his hearing loss
• reversing a grant of summary judgment because evidence that deaf individuals had successfully worked as lifeguards supported the inference that the plaintiff could, with a reasonable accommodation, perform the essential functions of the job

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).