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

A Georgia federal district court denied the United States Postal Service’s motion to dismiss claims of failure to accommodate and retaliation under the Rehabilitation Act brought by a mail carrier with lumbar/pelvic sprain and sacroiliitis, finding that she sufficiently alleged that her supervisors denied her medically-documented request for modified light duty work and subjected her to retaliatory harassment after she complained, though only for conduct occurring after a specific date, as earlier incidents were time-barred for failure to initiate EEO contact within the required 45-day period.

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