Sandra J. Walton v. Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring that a plaintiff must show “the harassment was based on her disability or a request for an accommodation”
• holding the plaintiff bears the burden of proving that she is otherwise qualified; if an accommodation is needed, the plaintiff must show, as part of her burden of persuasion, that an effective accommodation exists that would render her otherwise qualified
• the fact that supervisor’s behavior toward the disabled plaintiff was offensive does not indicate that it was based on plaintiffs disability
• applying the framework to ADA discrimination claims
• applying similar factors to the ADA
• McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting applies to ADEA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).