XOG Operating, LLC and Geronimo Holding Corporation v. Chesapeake Exploration Limited Partnership and Chesapeake Exploration, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that employer did not violate ADA or ICRA by failing to allow reduced schedule that made employee unqualified (8-hour schedule for job that required overtime)
• analyzing claim that 9.5 hour workday was \essential function\ where employer provided evidence that working overtime was part of job description and collective bargaining agreement
• finding reduced shift of eight hours for UPS driver made him unqualified to perform the job, which required overtime work
• where employer showed working overtime was essential to completing package deliveries, accommodation limiting employee to eight-hour work days made the plaintiff unqualified to perform essential functions of the job
• “ADA and ICRA disability discrimination claims are analyzed in the same fashion.”
• “If 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.’” (alteration in original) (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).