United States Second Circuit

In a case under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the New York State Human Rights Law, alleging violations by IBM when it refused to reasonably accommodate plaintiff's deafness by declining to caption all the videos and provide transcripts of all the audio files that are hosted on its corporate intranet, the district court's grant of summary judgment to employer is affirmed where: 1) employer reasonably accommodated plaintiff by providing American Sign Language interpreters capable of translating intranet files; and 2) in light of this accommodation, plaintiff has no claim that employer failed to engage him in an interactive process.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/21/2015
• Published 05/21/2015

Judges

• Jacobs

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel