Supreme Court of California

Like the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), California's Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) requires that plaintiffs prove they are "qualified individuals", meaning that they have the ability to perform a job's essential duties with or without reasonable accommodation, before they can prevail in a lawsuit for discrimination.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/23/2007
• Published 08/23/2007

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Pine & Pine, Norman Pine, Beverly Tillett Pine, Sherman Oaks;  Law Offices of David H. Greenberg and David H. Greenberg, Beverly Hills, for Plaintiff and Appellant., Claudia Center, Lewis Bossing and Elizabeth Kristen, San Francisco, for Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, Disability Rights Advocates, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund and The Disability Rights Legal Center as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Law Office of Jeffrey K. Winikow and Jeffrey K. Winikow, Los Angeles, for California Employment Lawyers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Jacob A. Appelsmith, Assistant Attorney General, Elizabeth Hong, Vincent J. Scally, Jr., Silvia M. Diaz and Michelle Logan-Stern, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Appellant., Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Paul W. Crane, Jr., Katherine C. Huibonhoa and Jaime D. Byrnes, San Francisco, for Employers Group and California Employment Law Council as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.