A US Army civilian employee properly lost his disability discrimination lawsuit because the delay in one accommodation he sought was reasonable, another request he made was fairly rejected, and his not being assigned overtime work was consistent with his medical restrictions, the Seventh Circuit ruled.
Gerald Swain made multiple accommodation requests over the years, and the Army mostly granted them, the court said. But it didn’t make a tool setting door automatic, to accommodate Swain’s limitations in applying force, until roughly 21 months after Swain asked it to do so. And it declined his request to make a certain set ...
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