Opinion ID: 857554
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Printer

Text: Cloe next contends that the City took too long to give her a printer in her office. On May 23, 2008, Cloe No. 12-1713 15 requested that the City provide her with an in-office printer to minimize the amount of walking she would have to do. The record is unclear on precisely how long it took for the printer to arrive, but Cloe’s deposition testimony indicates that it was somewhere between two weeks and one month. During that time, a supervisor had to approve the request, and the City eventually had to take a printer away from another employee to give it to Cloe. Cloe argues that the City could have bought a new printer or temporarily loaned one to her instead, and the City’s failure to do so was unreasonable. But these arguments are problematic. It is unclear whether the City actually could have loaned her a temporary printer—the fact that Cloe’s printer eventually had to be taken from someone else suggests that the City did not have a lot of extra printers lying around. As for buying a new printer, a responsible government is entitled to take time to evaluate alternatives before spending taxpayer money. In any event, “[i]t is the employer’s prerogative to choose a reasonable accommodation; an employer is not required to provide the particular accommodation that an employee requests.” Id. at 802. The question, therefore, is not whether the City could have chosen another reasonable accommodation, but rather whether the City’s chosen accommodation was reasonable, in light of all of the facts. We do not think a reasonable jury could find that the delay here in tracking down a new piece of equipment was unreasonable. As a result, summary judgment was proper on this claim as well. 16 No. 12-1713