Thomas E. Ballard v. Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that notice to the employer “must make clear that the employee wants assistance for his or her disability”
• explaining that notice to the employer “must make clear that the employee wants assistance for his or her disability”
• stating that while there are no magic words needed to request a reasonable accommodation, the employee must make clear that he wants assistance for his disability
• explaining the elements of proof for a claim of failure to participate in the interactive process
• “[a]dministrative remedies must be exhausted before a federal employee may bring an employment discrimination claim against a federal employer”
• “[T]he notice nonetheless must make clear that the employee wants assistance for his or her disability. In other words, the employer must know of both the disability and the employee’s desire for accommodations for that disability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).