reasonable
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 535 U.S. 391 - US Airways, Inc. v. Barnett · 2002Most cited · 984 citing opinions
no more than "effective." The EEOC regulations do say that reasonable accommodations "enable" a person with a disability to perform the essential functions of a task.
How the Supreme Court has restated “reasonable”
Each Supreme Court definition of “reasonable,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “reasonable”
Court decisions citing the 4 opinions that defined “reasonable” — 2,023 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 5 definitions, chronological · 1936–2015
- ORIGINAL
Reasonable,' as here employed, means not 'capricious,' 'arbitrary,' or 'confiscatory.
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of enabling a disabled employee to keep his job.
by which an employer can advance its goals, and a given nonage factor can certainly be "reasonable" without being necessary.
degree of suspicion alongside other relevant circumstances.) Other parts of the Clean Air Act also expressly mention environmental effects, while §7412(n)(1)(A) does not.