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RICHARDS v. CH2M HILL, INC.

No. S087484.

111 Cal.Rptr.2d 87 (2001)

26 Cal.4th 798

29 P.3d 175

Lachi Delisa RICHARDS, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CH2M HILL, INC., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

August 23, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Seyfarth Shaw, Mark H. Van Brussel, Mark P. Grajski, Sacramento; Sherman & Howard and Theodore A. Olsen, Denver, CO, for Defendant and Appellant.

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Katherine C. Huibonhoa and Paul W. Cane, Jr., San Francisco, for California Employment Law Council as Amicus Curiae, on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, David A. Cathcart, Timothy S. Lykowski, Los Angeles, and Annette M. Gammon, for The Employers Group as Amicus Curiae, on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Christopher H. Whelan, Gold River; Joseph Posner; Law Offices of Ellen Lake and Ellen Lake, Oakland, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

WERDEGAR, J.

Plaintiff, a disabled employee, resigned from her job after a five-year period during which she claimed her employer was unwilling to effectively accommodate her disability. She sued her employer for disability discrimination and harassment and the jury found in her favor, awarding substantial sums as damages to compensate for severe emotional distress and lost salary. Many of the incidents of disability...

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