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Before getting started on the blog entry of the day, a couple of housekeeping matters in order. First, congratulations to the women of Spain for winning the World Cup. Second, my wife and I will be taking a very special trip abroad starting August 29 and returning September 8. So, this will be the last blog entry until the week of September 11.

The case of the day, Hamilton v. Dallas County, here , is actually not an ADA case at all. Rather, it is an en banc decision from the Fifth Circuit talking about what is an adverse action for purposes of title VII. The Fifth Circuit throws out its prior jurisprudence saying that an adverse action could only be an ultimate employment decision and then adopts a different test. The decision has implications for the question of whether a failure to accommodate is an adverse action, which is why I am blogging on

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