United States Ninth Circuit

Disabled employee who did not qualify for job due to government regulation may still be accommodated by lesser job that was not subject to the government regulation, even if filling in for the job she originally applied for was a possibility included in the lesser job's duties.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/09/2001
• Decided 11/30/2001
• Published 11/30/2001

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  REINHARDT, TASHIMA and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marc P. Charmatz,Mary C. Vargas and Sarah S. Geer, National Association of the Deaf Law Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, Suzanne M Dohrer, Dohrer & Watts, P.L.C., Phoenix, Arizona, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patricia S. Radez, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellee.