Brandt v. Village of Chebanse’s Empirical Analysis

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18 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions

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1. “some minimum size may be essential to the success”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Smith & Lee Associates, Inc. v. City of Taylor · Bryant Woods Inn Incorporated v. Howard County Maryland

2. ““Reasonable accommodation” is a term in many federal regulations and statutes, a term with an accepted meaning. Our recapitulation in Vande Zande v. Wisconsin Department of Administration, 44 F.3d 538, 542 (7th Cir.1995), an employment case, carries over nicely to housing: It is plain enough what “accommodation” means. The employer must be willing to consider making changes in its ordinary work rules, facilities, terms, and conditions in order to enable a disabled individual to work. The difficult term is “reasonable.” ... To “accommodate” a disability is to make some change that will enable the disabled person to work. An unrelated, inefficacious change would not be an accommodation of the disability at all. So “reasonable” may be intended to qualify (in the sense of weaken) “accommodation,” in just the same way that if one requires a “reasonable effort” of someone this means less than the maximum possible effort, or in law that the duty of “reasonable care.” the cornerstone of the law of negligence, requires something less than the maximum possible care. It is understood in that law that in deciding what care is reasonable the court considers the cost of increased care. See also Bronk v. Ineichen, 54 F.3d 425, 429 (7th Cir.1995) (applying the approach of Vande Zande to a Fair Housing Act case); Palatine, 37 F.3d at 1234 (“determining whether a requested accommodation is reasonable requires, among other things, balancing the needs of the parties involved”).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 23 F. Supp. 2d 941 - Oconomowoc Residential Programs, Inc. v. City of Greenfield

3. “to permit a variance elsewhere within its borders ... assuredly defeats any claim that the Village's policies have a disparate impact on the handicapped”). 15 . To be sure, the district court observed in passing that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Schwarz v. City of Treasure Island