She says her request went in the day she signed. Day one came with nothing
A registrar asked Yale for an ergonomic desk before her first day. She says she never got it while she worked there.
A woman who worked as registrar at Yale Divinity School sued Yale University in the US District Court for the District of Connecticut on August 14, 2026, alleging the university never gave her the workstation her doctors had prescribed and never engaged with her in good faith about it. Her complaint brings claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act, the state law barring disability discrimination in employment.
The filing says she brought a decade of higher education administration experience to the job, including more than seven years at Columbia University and registrar and dean roles at two theological seminaries. It says she has been diagnosed with hemiplegic migraine, which the complaint describes as a rare and serious neurological condition that mimics stroke symptoms, including fluctuating one-sided paralysis, cognitive impairment and severe pain.
Her accommodation was a defined equipment list, according to the complaint: a particular ergonomic task chair, a rocking foot machine, a keyboard tray and adaptive mouse, a specific height-adjustable desk and ergonomic software. The filing says a licensed occupational therapist had prescribed the items and that every prior employer...
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