Sharp v. Abate

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• looking at how to define essential job functions for purposes of the ADA (citing 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2(n)(3))
• guarding prisoners is not necessarily an essential function of prison guards
• noting, in reference to defendants’ argument of a substantial financial burden to maintain an officer who was unable to supervise inmates, that “the fact that able-bodied [C]orrection [O]fficers are placed in clerical and administrative positions within the Department is troublesome”
• no liability for denial of transfer request from facility in which employee experienced allergic reaction where employer was unaware of reaction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).