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221035P.pdf 03/23/2023 Michael Winters v. Deere & Company
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 22-1035
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Eastern
[PUBLISHED] Kobes, Author, with Kelly and Wollman, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Employment discrimination. Plaintiff cannot make a prima
facie case of failure to accommodate his disability as he never requested
an accommodation at the relevant time; plaintiff failed to provide any
direct evidence of disability-based discrimination; with respect to the
McDonnell Douglas framework, assuming plaintiff can make a prima facie
case of disability-based discrimination, defendant established a
legitimate non-discriminatory ground for plaintiff's termination, which he
failed to show was pretextual.