Thomas Amadio v. Ford Motor Company

How courts have described this case

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• listing cases in which court found attendance to be essential job function
• affirming summary judgment for employer: “[I]f an employer ‘bends over backwards to accommodate a disabled worker … it must not be punished for its generosity by being deemed to have conceded the reasonableness of so far- reaching an accommodation.’”
• “It is well-settled that speculation may not be used to manufacture a genuine issue of fact.”
• “Consequently, where a deposition and affidavit are in conflict, the affidavit is to be disregarded unless it is demonstrable that the statement in the deposition was mistaken.”
• in light of employee’s attendance record, “the extension of [employee’s] already lengthy leave by one more week would have been a futile concession, not a reasonable accommodation”
• “It is well settled that speculation may not be used to manufacture a genuine issue of fact.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).