E.E.O.C. v. DOLGENCORP, LLC

No. 17-6278.

899 F.3d 428 (2018)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, Linda K. Atkins, Intervenor Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DOLGENCORP, LLC, dba Dollar General Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 7, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Stanley E. Graham , WALLER LANSDEN DORTCH & DAVIS, LLP, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Barbara L. Sloan , EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Washington, D.C., for Federal Appellee. Maha M. Ayesh , JENNIFER MORTON LAW, PLLC, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellee Atkins. ON BRIEF: Stanley E. Graham , John E. B. Gerth , P. Maxwell Smith , WALLER LANSDEN DORTCH & DAVIS, LLP, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Barbara L. Sloan , EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Washington, D.C., for Federal Appellee. Maha M. Ayesh , Jennifer B. Morton , JENNIFER MORTON LAW, PLLC, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellee Atkins.

Before: COLE, Chief Judge; SUTTON and LARSEN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Linda Atkins, once a sales associate at Dollar General, is a type II diabetic who occasionally suffers from low blood sugar. She must respond to these episodes by quickly consuming glucose to avoid the risk of seizing or passing out. When she asked her manager if she could keep orange juice at her register...

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