Austin State Hospital v. Kitchen

BEA ANN SMITH, Justice.

Laura Kitchen sued and obtained a judgment against the Austin State Hospital (“ASH”) and the Texas Department of Mental Health & Mental Retardation (“TDMHMR”) for employment discrimination based on failure to accommodate a disability. The district court awarded Kitchen back pay, lost benefits, and attorney’s fees and ordered Kitchen reinstated. ASH and TDMHMR appeal, claiming that their objections and the jury’s answers to questions in the court’s charge should have precluded the deemed findings necessary for Kitchen to recover on her theory that appellants failed to…