Disability accommodations at work
Brenda Kay Leavy v. Federal Express
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Brenda Kay Leavy asks the Supreme Court to review her case against FedEx, including her request to set aside a judgment as invalid (a Rule 60(b)(4) motion) and her disability-accommodation claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- What's at stake
- Whether the Supreme Court will review Leavy's challenge to the judgment and the handling of her ADA claim remains unresolved.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
She argues the courts mishandled the motion’s timing and procedures and should not have left her claim undecided just because she left a form box blank.
Leavy asks whether courts should consider her explanation and earlier efforts to seek review when deciding if she waited too long to ask that the judgment be set aside.
Question presented
1. Whether, in determining whether a Rule 60(b)(4) motion was filed within a “reasonable time” under Rule 60(c)(1), a court must consider the movant’s stated explanation for the timing of the motion and documented intervening efforts to obtain review. 2. Whether a Rule 60(b)(4) motion constitutes impermissible relitigation when the movant alleges defects in the procedures by which judgment was entered — including the failure to adjudicate an asserted federal claim and the treatment of identified record evidence and disputed material facts as though they had not been presented — rather than merely challenging the correctness of the underlying merits determination. 3. Whether a federal court may refuse to adjudicate a pro se plaintiff’s ADA failure-to-accommodate claim solely because the plaintiff left the corresponding box blank on a standardized complaint form, where the court itself acknowledged that the plaintiff had asserted reasonable-accommodation discrimination under the ADA.
What happens next
The next step is for the Court to decide whether to hear the petition. No oral argument or decision timing is available before the Court agrees to hear the case.
Documents
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- What does Leavy ask the Supreme Court to decide?
- She asks whether courts must weigh her explanation and earlier review efforts when assessing delay, whether alleged procedural failures differ from simply trying the original dispute again, and whether a blank form box alone can leave her ADA accommodation claim undecided.
Sources
Primary materials plus reporting. Best-effort analysis: this explainer relies on a mix of primary materials and trusted secondary sources. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.