E.E.O.C. v. UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT

Nos. 89-1084, 89-1226.

904 F.2d 331 (1990)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff, Robert Patrick Roesser, Intervenor-Appellant, v. UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT and University of Detroit Professors Union, Defendants-Appellees. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellant, Robert Patrick Roesser, Intervenor, v. UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT and University of Detroit Professors Union, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 17, 1990.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied May 31, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel A. Marcosson (argued), E.E.O.C., Office of the General Counsel, Washington, D.C., Mimi M. Gendreau, Equal Employment Opportunity Office, Detroit Dist. Office, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiff.

David E. Kempner, Keller, Thomas, Schwarze, Schwarze, DuBay & Katz, Detroit, Mich., Bruce N. Cameron (argued), Nat. Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Springfield, Va., for intervenor-appellant.

Bruce R. Lerner, Peter O. Shinevar (argued), Robert H. Chanin, Bredhoff & Kaiser, Washington, D.C., David P. Smith (argued), Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Eli Grier, Levin, Levin, Garvett & Dill, Southfield, Mich., for defendants-appellees.

Before MARTIN and NORRIS, Circuit Judges, CONTIE, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 31, 1990.

ALAN E. NORRIS, Circuit Judge.

Under section 701(j) of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(j), an employer must reasonably accommodate an employee's religious needs unless the employer demonstrates that such an accommodation would result in undue hardship. The issue in this appeal is whether an employer satisfies this statutory duty by offering an accommodation which addresses but one part of the...

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