United States Ninth Circuit

Once an employer becomes aware of an employee's need for accommodation, it has a mandatory obligation under the ADA to engage in a continuing interactive process with the employee to identify and implement appropriate reasonable accommodations.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/10/1999
• Decided 02/13/2001
• Published 02/13/2001

Judges

• REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:, Before:  KRAVITCH,REINHARDT, and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jerry Budin,Green & Azevedo, Modesto, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Edward Fischer, James Francis Curran, and Rhonda Canby of Diepenbrock, Wulff, Plant, and Hannegan LLP, Sacramento, California, for the defendant-appellee.