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· 11/18/1996

Robert E. Bultemeyer v. Fort Wayne Community Schools

Citations

  • 100 F.3d 1281
  • 6 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 67
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 29952
  • 1996 WL 663829

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that plaintiff with a history of paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder was disabled under the ADA
  • holding that although physician’s letter requesting an accommodation for disabled employee came after employer’s decision to terminate, employer should have “reconsider[ed] the decision to terminate his employment”
  • holding that plaintiff with a history of paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder was disabled under the ADA
  • stating that where the precise nature of the disability or desired accommodation are ambiguous, the employer must ask for clarification
  • “If the note was too ambiguous and [the employer] did not know what [the employee] wanted, [the employer] easily could have called Dr. Fawver for a clarification.”

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Judges: Posner, Wood, Eschbach

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