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

A phlebotomist for the University of Pennsylvania Health System who was on the kidney transplant list may not proceed with his claim that it failed to accommodate his disability when it fired him for violating the no-cell phone policy instead of granting his request to receive calls from a transplant program during work. The health system attempted to accommodate his needs by providing landlines and his claim that they were unreliable—because messages weren’t delivered to him in a timely manner—failed, given that he never received any calls from the transplant program on the landlines, the only messages that weren’t timely ...