reasonable-accommodation

99 cases — ← All topics

Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A765 Karen L. MacElroy Zopatti v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-02 Application ada disability-rights due-process judicial-access reasonable-accommodation title-ii Whether the state trial court violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title II by denying reasonable accommodations and effective communica…
25-737 John S. Morter v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense District of Columbia 2025-12-22 Pending Response Waived agency-discretion essential-job-function medical-exemption reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act security-screening 1. Whether a federal agency may, consistent with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and EEOC regulations, redefine a security screening requirement —suc…
25A520 Ethan West-Helmle v. Denver District Attorney's Office, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-05 Application ada-violation disability-discrimination medical-impairment professional-externship reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Question not identified.
25A373 Rochelle L. Smith v. General Motors, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-30 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court-review employment-discrimination medical-restrictions reasonable-accommodation workplace-injury Question not identified.
25A363 Teresa Maria Harmon v. Louis I. Waterman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-conduct disability-discrimination legal-advocacy pro-se-litigant reasonable-accommodation Question not identified.
25-353 Sally W. Tarquinio v. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab Fourth Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act cdc-guidelines employment-discrimination medical-decision-making medical-exemption reasonable-accommodation The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to Respondent and did not require em…
25-314 Carl Culp v. Scott Caudill, in His Official Capacity as Chief of the Fort Wayne Police Department Seventh Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act arrest-standards civil-rights disability-rights law-enforcement reasonable-accommodation Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq., applies to a law enforcement agency during the circumstance of the…
24A1238 M. Patricia Cantu, et vir v. Austin Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-13 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act discrimination law-enforcement mental-health-crisis reasonable-accommodation use-of-force Question not identified.
24-975 Latrisha Winder, as Next Friend of J. W., a Minor and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stephen Wayne Winder, Deceased, et al. v. Joshua M. Gallardo, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination exigent-circumstances law-enforcement reasonable-accommodation Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) prohibits public entities, including local law-enforcement agencies, from discriminating…
24A751 Trent Nelson v. URSA Major Corporation Seventh Circuit 2025-01-31 Presumed Complete ada disability-rights employment-discrimination fmla medical-leave reasonable-accommodation Question not identified.
24-6206 Anthony Bowden, Sr. v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2024-12-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law disability-discrimination due-process federal-employment merit-system-protection-board reasonable-accommodation Was Federal Appeals Court opinion to confirm the Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) decision in the Bowden vs. OPM case discrimination against a per…
24-481 Irma Leibas v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split employment-discrimination essential-job-functions medical-restrictions reasonable-accommodation Whether in denying Petitioner a reasonable accommodation for, inter alia, up to three additional bathroom breaks per shift, the Seventh Circuit correc…
24-5742 Jasmine Oliver v. Amazon.com Services LLC Seventh Circuit 2024-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP employer-liability reasonable-accommodation retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-discrimination Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, U.S.C. 2000e Et Seq., outlines an employee whose sexual harassment of subordinates has created …
24-400 Jennifer Tom v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination employment-rights ninth-circuit-review reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act 1) Can the Court allow the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision to stand in Tom v. Social Security Administration where the U.S. Court…
24-274 LuzMaria Arroyo v. Volvo Group North America, LLC, dba Volvo Parts North America Seventh Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied disability-rights employment-discrimination military-service reasonable-accommodation userra veterans-protection I. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred in in applying 38 U.S.C. § 4311 of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Ri…
24-249 A. J. T., By and Through Her Parents, A. T. & G. T. v. Osseo Area Schools, Independent School District No. 279, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-09-05 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-rights educational-discrimination reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Whether the ADA and Rehabilitation Act require children with disabilities to satisfy a uniquely stringent "bad faith or gross misjudgment" standard wh…
24-237 Gabriel N. Schwartz v. Beauvallon Condominium Association, Inc. Colorado 2024-09-03 Denied attorney-fees fair-housing-act homeowners-association mask-mandate medical-privacy reasonable-accommodation 1. For purposes of receiving a reasonable accom modation and/or an exemption, from a homeowners association (HOA) mask mandate, may the HOA require …
24-179 Eric Katz v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fourth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination material-fact reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act 1. Whether the court erred in upholding the ruling that there was no genuine issue of material fact with regard to Mr. Katz 's claim that the DOJ v…
24-5149 Brandy Thompson v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-discrimination ada-rehabilitation-act-burden-shifting-qualified-i burden-shifting disability-rights employment-discrimination reasonable-accommodation retaliation-claim Did the lower court correctly apply the burden-shifting framework in assessing the plaintiffs discrimination and retaliation claims under the American…
24A81 Jane Doe, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Child, Sarah Doe v. Franklin Square Union Free School District Second Circuit 2024-07-23 Presumed Complete disability-accommodation disability-rights federal-law reasonable-accommodation school-district student-protection Question not identified.
24-5049 Irena Shie v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-07-11 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act communication-disability deprivation-of-constitutional-rights-under-color-o equal-protection fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech judicial-procedure meaningful-participation-in-justice-system petition-government-for-redress-of-grievances reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations In light of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Americans with Disabihties Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., which mandate e…
23-1354 Jamilah Abdul-Haqq v. Permanente Medical Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act duty-of-fair-representation employment-discrimination fair-employment-and-housing-act interactive-process post-traumatic-stress-disorder reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations The basis for the Grant of Certiorari is that the lower court's error regarding individuals with disabilities has fundamental legal significance and m…
23A1109 LuzMaria Arroyo v. Volvo Group North America, LLC dba Volvo Parts North America Seventh Circuit 2024-06-12 Presumed Complete ada disability-standards employment-discrimination military-service reasonable-accommodation userra Question not identified.
23A1050 Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, dba Labcorp v. Luke Davis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-24 Presumed Complete accessibility ada disability-rights medical-testing ninth-circuit reasonable-accommodation Question not identified.
23-7400 Leslie J. Reynard v. Washburn University of Topeka Tenth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada-accommodation ada-title-i eeoc-filing eeoc-filing-requirements equitable-tolling light-sensitivity qualified-disabled-employees reasonable-accommodation seizure-disorder summary-judgment I. Title I mandates employers to reasonably accommodate qualified, disabled employees who request help. Dr. Reynard's lifelong seizure disorder is tri…
23-7331 Carol Ann McBratnie v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Sixth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act case-precedent disability disability-status employee employment-law job-applicant medical-inquiry reasonable-accommodation Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals [Appeals Court] and the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (US District Court) apply the wron…
23-7320 Darrin Espinosa v. Contra Costa County, California Ninth Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-rights employment-discrimination essential-functions job-performance reasonable-accommodation termination termination-of-employment workers-compensation 1. DOES A DISABLED PERSON HAVE THE RIGHT TO PERFORM A JOB EVEN THOUGH HE DOES NOT NEED ACCOMOCATIONS TO PERFORM ALL ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB? 2…
23-7074 Venus Moore v. Delaware Merit Employee Relations Board, et al. Delaware 2024-03-28 Denied IFP ada-accommodation americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights due-process employment-discrimination interactive-process reasonable-accommodation veterans-readjustment-act vevraa 1. Did the defendant, DHSS/DMS, have a legal obligation to engage in a "flexible interactive process" with the plaintiff, Venus Moore, as she requeste…
23A715 Kevin Rashaan Golden v. City of Longview, Public Works Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-02 Presumed Complete ada disability-discrimination employment-discrimination municipal-liability reasonable-accommodation wrongful-termination Question not identified.
23-733 Jada Ku v. Great Falls College Montana State University Montana 2024-01-09 Denied Response Waived accommodation civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process educational-discrimination equal-protection mental-health-rights reasonable-accommodation standing state-university Can the Great Falls College Montana State University discriminate against me because of my mental disability? Will the Supreme Court of the State of…
23-6233 In Re Patrick di Santo 2023-12-12 Denied IFP ada-compliance administrative-hearing administrative-tribunals civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process judicial-accessibility reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations state-and-local-government-services traumatic-brain-injury Did Edward Mandlebaum and Alexandra Perez Halper f/k/a Alexandra Perez Cid fail to state cause of action for the relief which they were granted.
23-5843 Cleon Belgrave v. Publix Super Market, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-discrimination ada-qualified-individual ada-reasonable-accommodations ada-retaliation civil-rights disability-rights eeoc-filing employment-discrimination employment-termination judicial-review reasonable-accommodation • Defendants falsely claimed that the plaintiff did not file a timely EEOC, and ignored evidence supporting timely filing. Moreover, the plaintiff sho…
23-362 Perry Hopman v. Union Pacific Railroad Eighth Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination equal-access essential-job-functions reasonable-accommodation Is the ADA requirement of reasonable accommodation of employees with disabilities limited to —accommodations that enable an employee to perform the es…
23-309 Michael Paul Nelson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure disability-rights due-process equal-access fundamental-rights reasonable-accommodation Does the Confrontation Clause of the 6th Amendment and/or the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment require a criminal court to modify its policies…
23-268 Carolyn Frost Keenan v. River Oaks Property Owners, Inc. Texas 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split disability-discrimination fair-housing-act knowledge-element reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation Whether an FHAA reasonable-accommodation disability claim under 42 U.S.C. § 3604(f)(3) is barred if the defendant does not know or could not have reas…
23-264 Jay Hannah v. United Parcel Service, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response Waived ada ada-accommodation business-decision disability-rights employment-discrimination equipment-modification fourth-circuit judicial-review reasonable-accommodation reasonable-modification union-employee This is a crucial matter involving the rights of disabled, union employees to receive reasonable accommodation that has not yet been, but should be, d…
23-134 Suellen Klossner v. IADU Table Mound MHP, LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-08-14 Denied Amici (1) alternative-income-sources civil-rights disability disability-rights equal-opportunity fair-housing-act housing-discrimination reasonable-accommodation rent-payment tenant-rights The question presented is whether an "accommodation" under the Fair Housing Act can include the relaxation of a policy of refusing to accept rent from…
23A123 Perry Hopman v. Union Pacific Railroad Eighth Circuit 2023-08-11 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination essential-job-functions reasonable-accommodation service-animal Question not identified.
23A113 Carolyn Frost Keenan v. River Oaks Property Owners, Inc. Texas 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete circuit-split deed-restrictions disability fair-housing-amendments-act property-owners-association reasonable-accommodation Question not identified.
22-7782 Stephanie Morgan v. Prime Wimbledon SPE, LLC, et al. Oregon 2023-06-13 Denied Relisted (3)IFP covid-19 covid-19-shutdowns disability-discrimination fourteenth-amendment housing-protections mental-health-disability privacy privacy-rights reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations Like millions of other Americans, petitioner's normal daily living activities were interrupted and upended when COVID-19 shutdowns spread across the n…
22-1187 Julia Keller-McIntyre v. California California 2023-06-08 Rehearing ada civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment-law equal-employment protected-status reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Under California laws California State University Executive Code 1096, California Government Code 19230, and California Education Code 87102, and unde…
22-7724 Juan Andrade-Moreno, aka Juan A. Moreno v. Isaac Kwarting, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence ada-coverage civil-rights constitutional-rights disability dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment physical-injury post-conviction reasonable-accommodation standing Question not identified.
22-1067 Brian E. Johnson v. Mike Dobbins, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process intentional-discrimination prisoner-rights reasonable-accommodation sixth-circuit-court solitary-confinement 1. Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err by holding that Title II of the American Disabilities Act ("ADA") requires a prisoner with a known disab…
22-7304 Gricely Rosa v. Lawrence Housing Authority, et al. First Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied IFP administrative-policy americans-with-disabilities-act disability disability-rights fair-housing-amendments-act federal-funding housing-discrimination justiciability public-housing reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Is to what extent a public housing agency must alter its policies and procedures to accommodate the handicapped 42 U.S. Code § 12102, or does the deni…
22-979 Nicole Owens v. Georgia Governor's Office of Student Achievement Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied Response Waived ADA ada-amendments-act disability-accommodation disability-discrimination employment-law interactive-process major-life-activities pregnancy-discrimination-act reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act When an employee suffers from a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits her in one or more major life activities, what form must a req…
22-7118 Scott David Creech v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Sixth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prisoner-accommodation reasonable-accommodation 1.) Did the Ohio Department of Rehabilitations and Corrections know that Petitioner was disabled and thereafter deny him a reasonable accommodation to…
22-621 Linda Matarese, Personal Representative of the Estate of Hilda Duld Bauman, Deceased v. Virginia Hospital Center Arlington Health System, dba Virginia Hospital Center, et al. Virginia 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment haines-v-kerner motion-to-strike pro-se-litigant reasonable-accommodation 1. Did the Supreme Court of Virginia in affirming the Arlington County Circuit court violate Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights by f…
22-6412 Nicholas Conlan v. Costco Wholesale Corporation Ninth Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation employment-discrimination interactive-process jury-trial pretext reasonable-accommodation service-animal service-dog workplace-accommodation Did Costco violate the Americans with Disabilities Amendment Act by terminating the interactive process with ambiguities they had and not directly eng…
22-5682 Jonathan F. Ramos v. Valmont Industries, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-justice americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights due-process employment-discrimination reasonable-accommodation sign-language-interpretation standing workplace-accessibility Why Valmont employ or Allow ASL interpreter on the floor but why not if denial, from Valmont Alloways Nebraska, needs Texas more clear understand? Wh…
21-8246 Richard D. Bostwick v. 44 Chestnut Street, Wakefield, Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity reasonable-accommodation regulatory-taking standing substantive-due-process Whether the Remedies, Procedures and Rights set forth in (a) the Americans with Disabilities Act (Title 42 c. 126 U.S.C. ^ 12101) generally and Enforc…
21-1112 Sonya Gorbea v. Verizon New York, Inc. Second Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied ada constructive-termination employment-discrimination job-abandonment pretext ptsd reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations title-vii 1. How can Verizon dereliction of duty and reckless disregard for the necessary medical treatment be acceptable under the ADA/Title VII in much as not…
21-7091 Zachary E. Coley v. Shaw Industries, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied IFP ada ada-claim administrative-law civil-rights court-review disability-rights discrimination due-process judicial-error legal-procedure reasonable-accommodation standing Am requsting the court to piease review my ada claim I feei the lower courts made some major errors.
21-7085 Kristina Merle Larson v. American Home Products, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Fourth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-compliance disability-discrimination employment-discrimination interactive-process medical-confidentiality psychiatric-disability reasonable-accommodation retaliation termination workplace-retaliation 1. Why is it okay for the defendant to completely ignore the plaintiffs request for a reasonable accommodation? The plaintiff was never notified wheth…
21-7044 Marc Fishman v. Office of Court Administration New York State Courts, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-function americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split court-access disability-discrimination judicial-immunity meaningful-access reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations This case is of great National and public importance as the holding of the Court of Appeals that the state family court is shiel ded from any claims b…
21-6923 Raymond V. DiGiacomo v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco California 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-1990 appellate-rights court-funding disability-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-review legal-access procedural-technicalities reasonable-accommodation state-court-procedure Question not identified.
21-1018 Nicole Colton v. Fehrer Automotive, North America, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied ada ada-amendments-act ada-amendments-act-of-2008 disability disability-discrimination motion-to-dismiss pleading reasonable-accommodation regarded-as-disabled short-stature standing 1. Whether Colton's short stature could plausibly be a disability covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990, as amended by the ADA Amendm…
21-680 Lawrence Salisbury v. City of Santa Monica, California Ninth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Response Waived consideration disability-accommodation disability-rights fair-housing-act fair-housing-amendments-act federal-common-law housing-discrimination landlord-tenant landlord-tenant-law procedural-requirements reasonable-accommodation rental-housing 1. Under the FHAA, are landlords required to accommodate the disabilities of individuals who occupy rental housing, even where the rental arrangement …
21-671 Tori Evans v. Cooperative Response Center, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework prima-facie-case qualified-employee reasonable-accommodation I. Whether courts can weigh the employer's reason for discharge in determining whether an employee satisfies her prima facie case that she is qualifie…
21-647 Janet Perdue v. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied ada-accommodation ada-reasonable-accommodation disability-discrimination job-sharing neutral-work-rule pretext reasonable-accommodation summary-judgment us-airways-v-barnett work-rule 1. The Panel held that a neutral company work rule requiring "managerial approval" before a job-share position is even created trumps the ADA's provis…
21-570 Ralph Keller v. Chippewa County Board of Commissioners, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination discrimination due-process individualized-assessment medical-devices reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Did the Lower Courts err in failing to recognize the discrimination against Petitioner, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities and Rehabilita…
21-123 Marguerite T. Martin v. Teleperformance Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination medical-condition privacy reasonable-accommodation security-breach termination wrongful-termination • The plaintiff/Appellant act of committing a security breach were not mentioned throughout the case. * Symptoms of the Plaintiff/Appellant's anemia …
21-92 Dolores Machuca v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Fifth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived ada administrative-exhaustion disability-discrimination employment hostile-work-environment postal-service-employment reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations rehabilitation-act 1. Whether the Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies is allowing the United States Postal Service as an employer to discriminate against disabled empl…
20-1584 Shelia Holmes v. General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination employment employment-discrimination essential-functions essential-job-functions qualified-individual reasonable-accommodation workplace-accommodation 1. Whether an employer's steel-toed shoe requirement is an essential function of a disabled employee's job for purposes of determining whether she is …
20-1527 Michelle Stopyra Yaney v. State Bar of California California 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process effective-communication government-agency mental-disability reasonable-accommodation reasonable-modification Is communication to facilitate understanding regarding procedure by one who suffers from a mental disability, such as anxiety disorder, a statutory re…
20-7706 JaKara Vester v. Henlopen Landing Homeowners Association, Inc., et al. Delaware 2021-04-12 Denied IFP autism disability-discrimination disparate-treatment fair-housing-act housing-discrimination housing-provider-liability pretext-discrimination reasonable-accommodation special-needs The Fair Housing Act ("FHA ") is a policy enacted by Congress to provide, within constitutional limitations, for fair housing throughout the United …
20-1357 Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado v. Laurie Exby-Stolley Tenth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied ada adverse-employment-action americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights employment-discrimination reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff asserting a failure-to-accommodate claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12112(a), must show that t…
20-1224 O’Reilly Auto Enterprises, LLC, dba O'Reilly Auto Parts v. Brian Bell First Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination essential-functions essential-job-functions first-circuit reasonable-accommodation Does the ADA require employers to provide accommodations to employees who do not need them?
20-1058 National Board of Medical Examiners v. Jessica Ramsay Third Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Response Waived academic-performance-evaluation ada ada-disability-standard disability disability-diagnosis medical-licensing medical-licensing-exam reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations standardized-testing-accommodation standardized-tests third-circuit Under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), a "disability" is "a physical or mental impairment," 42 U.S.C. § 12102(1)(A), that "substantially l…
20-901 Spring Branch Independent School District v. O. W., By Next Friend Hannah W. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived child-find individuals-with-disabilities-education-act public-school-district reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations school-district section-504 special-education Is a public school district's use of Section 504 accommodations a reasonable step in the process of complying with its Child Find obligation under the…
20-6650 Gregory Scott Sumner v. Brett Carter, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP ada ada-discrimination bivens-action civil-rights disability-rights due-process equal-access equal-protection free-speech public-services reasonable-accommodation This is a Title II ADA case violation of Civil Rights. 35.130 (a)No qualified individual with a disability shall, on the basis of disability, be exclu…
20-6224 Brenda L. White v. Elite Beverages Seventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied IFP addiction-treatment alcohol-abuse civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process duty-of-care employee-misconduct employer-responsibility employment-law reasonable-accommodation workplace-negligence workplace-safety 1. Should a liquor store have rules drugs and alcohol and not follow them? 2. When a family member notices a problem with the employee and asks the l…
20-341 Natalie McDaniel v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Sixth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived ada-constructive-discharge ada-essential-functions ada-hostile-work-environment ada-reasonable-accommodation ada-telework ada-undue-hardship constructive-discharge disability-discrimination essential-job-functions hostile-work-environment medical-restrictions reasonable-accommodation This Court, in US Airways, Inc. v. Barnett. 535 U.S. 391 (2002), considered what burden of proof governs the determination that an accommodation is re…
20-199 George Charles Clark v. Inco Champion National Security, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied ada-disability-discrimination ada-discrimination causation circuit-conflict direct-evidence disability-accommodation employment-termination reasonable-accommodation retaliation summary-judgment 1. What is the standard under the ADA applicable to firing an employee for conduct caused by a disability? 2. Is it a reasonable accommodation to mod…
19-1393 Rachelle Davis v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Response Waived actor civil-rights different-retaliatory-conduct eeoc-charge employment-discrimination lack-of-merit merit pro-se-complaint protected-activity reasonable-accommodation retaliation retaliation-claim same-actor statute-of-limitations timeliness untimely-complaint I) Does protection against retaliation apply even if the original complaint or charge was untimely or was found to lack merit when initiated by the …
19-8717 Lance E. Felton v. City of Jackson, Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-accommodation disability-rights employment-discrimination interactive-process post-traumatic-stress-disorder pretext reasonable-accommodation termination A. While a Patrol Lieutenant employed with the City of Jackson, Mississippi ("the city"), Lance Felton ("Felton") suffered post-traumatic stress disor…
19-8067 Abdul Mohammed v. DuPage Legal Assistance Foundation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights counsel-appointment disability-rights due-process judicial-procedure medical-records mental-health reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act standing 1) whether a Plaintiff with physical and mental disabilities in an Americans with Disabilities Act action need to reveal all his/her medical and menta…
19-7941 Jane Doe v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act appellate-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process pro-se pro-se-litigation reasonable-accommodation standing I. Whether the Second Circuit on January 3, 2020 violated the law by fifth and fourteenth Amendment by dismissing the appeal without ruling on the re…
19-7740 Yolanda Bell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-dismissal civil-rights collateral-order disability disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-discretion judicial-process motion-denial reasonable-accommodation Did the Court of Appeals commit legal error and abuse their discretion when denying Petitioner's appeal of the district courts denial of her motions r…
19-549 Hannah P. v. Joseph Maguire, Acting Director, Office of the Director of National Intelligence Fourth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights conduct conduct-based-termination disability disability-discrimination employment employment-discrimination employment-law reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act The question presented is whether an employment decision that is based on conduct caused by a qualified individual's disability is insulated from scru…
19-6335 James Morris Balagia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine counsel-of-choice disability-accommodation interlocutory-appeal legal-review reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act rehabilitation-act-of-1978 right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez, 548 U.S. 140, 126 S.Ct. 2557, 165 L.Ed.2d 409 (2006) abrogate Flanagan v. United States, 465 U.S. 259 (1984) and…
19-252 Michael Adam Booth v. Nissan North America, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Relisted (2) ada-amendments ada-amendments-act-of-2008 americans-with-disabilities-act disability-definition judicial-precedent legislative-intent major-life-activity reasonable-accommodation rules-of-construction statutory-construction sutton-v-united-air-lines toyota-v-williams work-restrictions workplace-accommodation Whether the 2008 Amendment to the Americans Disability Act extends the definition of disability to permanent work restrictions precluding manual tasks…
19-5680 Kenneth Taylor Curry v. Vancouver Housing Authority, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech goldberg-hearing hearsay housing-authority housing-choice-voucher reasonable-accommodation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction violence-threat 1. A Vancouver Housing Authority Hearings Officer who is with out original subject matter jurisdiction is Ultra Vires and did not present Plaintiff,…
18-9689 Robert Joseph King v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-17 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP accessibility-law ada civil-rights disability-access disability-rights due-process equal-protection federal-buildings public-buildings public-facilities reasonable-accommodation 1. Must State and Federal Buildings be required to provide readily and reasonable access to restroom facilities to those who have a physical disabilit…
18-9038 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights courtroom-access disability-accommodation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion reasonable-accommodation standing trial-procedure Petitioner Questions the Trial Court's Failure Concerning Post 618, Property of Petitioner's Shoes as Qualified Moving and His Rights to be Handicappe…
18-8896 Richard J. Volis v. Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disability-discrimination disability-rights disparate-impact equal-protection fair-housing housing-discrimination protected-class public-housing reasonable-accommodation Whether the Housing Authority of the City of Lo Angeles' (HACLA) Administrative Plan required to accommodate all disabled voucher holders is unreasona…
18-1139 BNSF Railway Company v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) ada ada-discrimination americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court-split disability discrimination employment employment-discrimination job-applicant job-applicant-rights job-duties medical-examination ninth-circuit reasonable-accommodation regarded-as regarded-as-disability 1. Whether requiring an individualized medical examination as a condition of employment to determine whether a job applicant or employee can safely pe…
18-8035 Loretta C. Adigun v. Express Scripts, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada ada-reasonable-accommodation,eeoc-right-to-sue,dis americans-with-disabilities-act eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination prima-facie-case reasonable-accommodation right-to-sue social-security-administration Did Loretta C. Adigun neglect to satisfy the third prong of the prima facie case; by a lack of evidence, showing she requested a reasonable accommodat…
18-1047 Crystal Wade v. Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response Waived disability-discrimination employment-law indefinite-leave medical-leave prima-facie-case qualified-individual reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act workers-compensation Does a United States Court of Appeals ruling which affirmed the per se requirements of Wood v. Green, 323 F.3d 1309, 1314 (11th Cir, 2003), and which …
18-7584 Pamela Marberry v. State Bar of California California 2019-01-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada civil-procedure civil-rights disability due-process employment equal-protection reasonable-accommodation standing takings Why do injured workers have to suffer needlessly due to lack of care, medication and treatment? Why is a specialist's request for treatment denied be…
18-7112 Brien O. Hill v. Associates for Renewal in Education, Inc. District of Columbia 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment hostile-work-environment reasonable-accommodation standing summary-judgment title-vii Whether the elements for the hostile work environment claim in this cause have been raised to a standard of violation of Title VII SEC. 2002e-2. [Sect…
18-567 Danny Snapp v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company Ninth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied ada ADA-interactive-process ada-reasonable-accommodation burden-of-proof civil-rights disability-discrimination employer-burden employment interactive-process jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-accommodation summary-judgment undue-hardship us-airways-v-barnett In 2013 on appeal from a summary judgment dismissing claims for violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (the "ADA"), 42 U.S.C. §12101 et. seq…
18-6219 Melissa May v. Continental Towers Condominiums Association, et al. Kentucky 2018-10-04 Denied IFP access-to-justice accessibility civil-procedure civil-rights court-accommodation disability-discrimination due-process legal-procedure reasonable-accommodation self-representation standing Did the state of Kentucky not facilitate discrimination of Ms. May entirely, because of her disability? Furthermore was it reasonable in US democracy…
18-416 JoAnn Hatch v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived ada burden-of-proof civil-rights disability-discrimination non-discriminatory-reason reasonable-accommodation seniority-system summary-judgment 1. On a motion for summary judgment, whether the trial court may disregard or ignore a party's sworn testimony concerning a material historical fact b…
18-349 Darrell Patterson v. Walgreen Co. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hardison-v-twi reasonable-accommodation religious-accommodation title-vii undue-hardship Title VII prohibits an employer from firing an employee for engaging in a religious practice—here, abstaining from work on his Sabbath—"unless [the] e…
18-5920 Ronnie R. Rolland v. Carnation Building Services, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada-accommodation civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination judicial-estoppel misconduct-claims reasonable-accommodation retaliation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction termination (I) .THE APPEALS COURT REFLECTS A RULING THAT IS NOT IN ACCORDING WITH PREVIOUS SUPREME! OTHER SUPREME COURT'S DECISIONS ON SAME IMPORTANT MATTERS, AN…
18-5853 Dorothy Binns v. City of Marietta, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 ada americans-with-disabilities-act due-process fair-housing-act housing-discrimination public-housing reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Whether the Lower Courts violated any of these or other pertinent Laws, or rules, Overlooked, misapplied, neglected or made any vital legal errors in …
18-224 Luke O. Pickens v. Brevard Police Testing and Selection Center Florida 2018-08-22 Denied Response Waived ada-discrimination-perceived-disability,civil-righ ada-discrimination-perceived-disability,public-pro ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-administration law-enforcement-training public-programs reasonable-accommodation Whether 42 USC §12132 bars a state agency from discriminating against a qualified individual, perceived by the agency as disabled, by excluding the in…
18-5503 Brian Preston v. Great Lakes Specialty Finance, Inc., dba Axcess Financial Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-accommodation americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation disability-rights essential-job-functions interactive-dialogue qualified-employee reasonable-accommodation telecommuting work-from-home In determining whether a "work-from home" or "telecommuting" accommodation offered by an employer is "reasonable" under the Americans With Disabilitie…
18-147 Karen H. Scott v. District Hospital Partners, L.P., et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-01 Denied ada ada-amendments-act breathing circuit-conflict circuit-split disability-discrimination disability-law disability-rights eeoc-procedure judicial-interpretation life-threatening medical-impairment reasonable-accommodation relation-back-doctrine standing 1) Did the court of appeals decide that a severe physical condition, one that can prevent breathing and be life-threatening is not a disability under …