Raspa v. Office of Sheriff

This appeal requires that we address the threshold question of whether, as a matter of law, an employee can prosecute a claim alleging that his employer failed to accommodate the employee’s disability in violation of the Law Against Discrimination, N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 to -49 (LAD), when the employee’s permanent disability renders him unable to discharge essential functions of the position in which he was employed. In this case, a county corrections officer developed a disabling disease that, in his doctor’s words, required that the corrections officer “be in an environment with minimum to no…