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· 7/10/1987

Rhone v. US Dept. of Army

Citations

  • 665 F. Supp. 734

How courts have described this case

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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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Judges: Limbaugh

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