Case: Disability Discrimination/Reasonable Accommodation (8th Cir.)

A federal district court properly granted summary judgment to the University of Minnesota on the Americans with Disabilities Act claims of a discharged customer-service employee for its Boynton Health Service diagnosed with temporomandibular joint syndrome alleging disability discrimination, failure to accommodate and retaliation, the Eighth Circuit ruled. The court found she didn’t show she could perform the essential duties of the clerical or administrative positions she identified with or without an accommodation, given that she didn’t submit the job posting, the job title, or any evidence of the duties or requirements of any position, and when she was fired she’d ...