Case: Disability Discrimination/Failure to Accommodate (D. Kan.)

A Kansas federal district court denied summary judgment to Blue Valley Unified School District 229 on the failure to accommodate claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act brought by a special education para educator with back surgery restrictions, finding triable issues whether the district failed to engage in the interactive process and whether reasonable accommodations like temporary leave until October 10 and reassignment to a vacant computer-para position existed, but granted summary judgment on her ADA discrimination and retaliation claims.

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