Richard A. Sullivan v. River Valley School District, and Charles O. Williams, Superintendent, Individually and in His Official Capacity

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employee’s refusal to undergo a valid examination “is not a discriminatory reason” for an adverse employment action
• holding that the school properly required its teacher to submit to a mental examination
• holding that “there must be significant evidence that could cause a reasonable person to inquire as to whether an employee is still capable of performing his job” to uphold an employer’s request for an exam
• holding a fitness examination “ordered for valid reasons can neither count as an adverse job action nor prove discrimination”
• finding that “an examination ordered for valid reasons can neither count as an adverse job action nor prove discrimination.”
• stating that individual supervisors who do not independently qualify under the statutory definition of employers cannot be personally liable under the ADA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).