United States First Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant-employer on a failure to accommodate claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act and state law is vacated where the district court improperly concluded that accomodating plaintiff with a certain position would have altered his essential job requirements.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/23/2005
• Published 12/23/2005

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, LIPEZ, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frank J. Frisoli, with whom Frisoli & Frisoli, was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alan D. Rose, with whom Richard E. Bowmanand Rose & Associates, were on brief, for appellee.