Legal Opinion
Douglas Parker v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. And Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 3, 2001No. Docket 00-9198(L), 00-9454(CON)PublishedCited by 242 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff-appellant Douglas Parker lost his job with defendant-appellee Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. (“SPE”) after a workplace injury led him to take a medical leave of absence. Parker claims that he was fired because SPE failed to provide the reasonable accommodation he needed to return to work. SPE claims that he never sought any accommodation and that it believed, accurately and based on Parker’s own representations, that he was unable to return to work.
In a prior appeal, we reversed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to SPE and remanded for trial.…
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