Case: Disability Discrimination/Failure To Accommodate (W.D. Tenn.)

A Tennessee federal district court denied summary judgment to the Shelby County Government on the Americans with Disabilities Act failure to accommodate claim of a retirement supervisor with degenerative osteoarthritis disease affecting both knees, who was terminated after requesting additional leave, finding genuine issues of material fact existed as to whether his request for six more weeks of leave until a doctor’s appointment was reasonable.

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