Robert v. Board of County Commissioners

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a six (6) month leave request was too long to be considered reasonable accommodation
• deferring to the employer’s identification of essential functions, even where those functions were not specifically outlined in employment documents
• focusing on the fact that plaintiff remained unable to work despite “lengthy leave of absence, including the period authorized by the Family and Medical Leave Act”
• finding accommodation unreasonable as a matter of law when employer did not have a reasonable estimate of when employee would be able to resume all essential functions of her employment
• crediting plaintiff’s supervisor’s testimony about what was a necessary component of plaintiff’s position
• “[T]he Eighth Circuit ruled in an analogous case that a six-month leave request was too long to be a reasonable accommodation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).