Wells v. Shalala

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that we are “require[d]” to “consider the employer’s judgment as to what functions of a job are essential” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• plaintiff failed to make a reasonable request for accom- modation regardless of the disability alleged
• “The WPA proscribes any unfavorable personnel decision against an employee making certain disclosures are protected under the Act.”
• “Plaintiff bore the initial burden of establishing an interactive process . . . by proposing an accommodation and showing that the accommodation was objectively reasonable.”
• “[The defendant] did not illegally discriminate against [the plaintiff] by failing to reasonably accommodate his disability. Accordingly, [the plaintiff’s] constructive discharge claim based on disability discrimination necessarily fails.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).