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Remote Professor? A School’s No-Remote Rule Could Not Avoid an Accommodation Trial

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no-remote rule sounds straightforward. It became much less so when a professor with an autoimmune condition requested an accommodation.

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DR: An associate professor diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune condition requested permission to move her scheduled in-person courses online for four semesters while taking immunosuppressive medication. A federal appeals court held that factual disputes over essential job functions, remote work, and the interactive process foreclosed summary judgment on the principal

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