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· 4/24/1998

Ronald Nowak v. St. Rita High School

Citations

  • 142 F.3d 999
  • 8 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 106
  • 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 7865
  • 1998 WL 195916

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a teacher’s self-serving claim that he was “ready to return to his teaching position” was “insufficient to raise a material issue of fact as to his ability to come to work on a regular basis prior to [his employer’s] decision to terminate him”
  • explaining that the qualified individual determination \must be made as of the time of the employment decision\ (internal citation omitted)
  • finding that, “[t]he ADA does not require an employer to health and safety of the individual or others . . . .”
  • “The ADA does not require an employer to accommodate an employee who suffers a prolonged illness by allowing him an indefinite leave of absence.”
  • “[An] employee who does not come to work cannot perform the essential functions of his job.”
  • “The ADA does not require an employer to accommodate an employee who suffers a prolonged illness by allowing him an indefinite leave of absence.”

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Judges: Wood, Ripple

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