· 7/10/1987
Rhone v. US Dept. of Army
Citations
- 665 F. Supp. 734
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- noting that employee whose chronic sarcoidosis precluded him from working evening or night shift was substantially limited by his impairments
- Army’s long history of reassignment in similar circumstances contributed to finding that accommodation required reassignment of handicapped employee
- defendants were obligated to make a “substantial effort to find handicapped employee a position in which he could satisfactorily perform”
- Department of the Army failed to satisfy its duty of reasonable accommodation by refusing to transfer disabled employee to day shift or find him an equally suitable position
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