Richardson v. Friendly Ice Cream Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting evidence that restaurant manager’s “physical duties were reduced or shifted to other employees after she was injured” held “minimal value” as to whether those duties were essential
• “It is not uncommon for ‘managers’ of small restaurants and retail stores to spend little of their time managing others.”
• “ ‘[T]he law does not require an employer to accommodate a disability by foregoing an essential function of the position or by reallocating essential functions to make other workers’ jobs more onerous.’”
• “[I]f an employer has a legitimate reason for specifying multiple duties for a particular job classification ..., a disabled employee will not be qualified for the position unless [s]he can perform enough of these duties to enable a judgment that [s]he can perform its essential duties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).