Legal Opinion
Weatherspoon v. Azar
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 8, 2019No. Case No. 1:17-cv-00871 (TNM)PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TREVOR N. McFADDEN, U.S.D.J.
This is a case about a civil servant's dissatisfaction with the government's sluggishness in accommodating her disability. While delay is no doubt frustrating, it is not, in this case, unlawful.
Monique Weatherspoon suffers from a sensitivity to light that can make it difficult for her to travel to her office and to read her computer screen. She works for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Department tried to address these problems by devising telework arrangements, providing her with a docking station and large monitor so that she could work from…
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