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Shelia Holmes v. General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 19-1771 · judgment December 9, 2020

Certiorari denied · October 4, 2021

Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether an employer’s steel-toed shoe requirement is an essential function of a disabled employee’s job for purposes of determining whether she is a “qualified individual” under the ADA where the employer had not required the disabled employee to meet that requirement for more than a decade due to her disability and, as well, had allowed a similarlysituated employee to be excepted from the requirement?

For petitioner
Richard Franklin Hawkins III
The Hawkins Law Firm, PC

For respondent
Zachary Charles Schauf
Jenner & Block, LLP

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Oct 04 2021
Petition DENIED.
Jun 16 2021
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
Jun 11 2021
Waiver of right of respondent General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. to respond filed.
Main Document
May 10 2021
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 14, 2021)
Petition Appendix Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service