Bagenstos on US Airways v. Barnett

Thanks to Larry Solum at the Legal Theory Blog for pointing out that uber-disability law guy, Sam Bagenstos (Washington University), has put out on SSRN his new piece on the important ADA reasonable accommodation case of US Airways v. Barnett.  The essay is entitled: US Airways v. Barnett and the Limits of Disability Accommodation (CIVIL RIGHTS STORIES, Myriam Gilles & Risa Goluboff, eds., 2007).

Here's the abstract:

This essay, to be published in Civil Rights Stories (Myriam Gilles & Risa Goluboff, eds., forthcoming 2007), tells the story of US Airways v. Barnett. Barnett, which involved an employee's request that his employer modify its seniority system as a disability accommodation, the Supreme Court confronted for the first time the Americans with Disabilities Act's requirement of reasonable accommodation in employment. Barnett ultimately offers a window into three of the most important issues to understand about the ADA's accommodation requirement: the requirement's relationship to more traditional antidiscrimination mandates; its seemingly zero-sum nature; and the limits of its usefulness in a world of reduced job security for everyone.

A must-read for anyone who is interested in the ever-changing law of disability discrimination in employment.

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