Robert Peters v. City of Mauston

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the employee’s request that someone else do the heavy lifting for him was “unreasonable because it [would] require[] another person to perform an essential function of [the] job”
• explaining that requesting someone else to \perform an essential function\ of a job or \provid[ing] a helper as an accommodation\ is unreasonable
• finding construction worker’s request “that someone else do the heaviest lifting for him if he could not handle it” was unreasonable
• finding “unreasonable” an accommodation that would “require another person to perform an essential function” of the disabled employee’s job
• affirming dismissal on summary judgment of plaintiff’s Rehabilitation Act claims where plaintiff was not disabled
• affirming summary judgment against equipment operator who suffered shoulder injury and was no longer able to lift or carry anything over fifty pounds, and concluding that permitting another employee to help him with lifting requirements was not reasonable accommodation

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