Split 9th Circuit: Wrong Standard Applied In ADA Summary Judgment Ruling

Mealey's (July 7, 2020, 2:05 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A divided Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on July 2 reversed summary judgment for an employer in a disability discrimination suit, finding that the District Court’s holding that the hotel failed to engage in the interactive process in good faith and its ruling for that hotel did “not appear to be internally consistent” (Jorge Rosales v. Bellagio, LLC, No. 19-15574, 9th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 20816)....