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TAWNA BOWLES v. SSRG II, LLC, dba Chicken Salad Chick

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Dec 17, 2025

Court: 6th Circuit Court (Published Opinions)

Attorneys 1: ON BRIEF: Stephen E. Imm, Samantha B. Isaacs, FINNEY LAW FIRM, LLC, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellant.

Attorneys 2: Mark G. Arnzen, Jr., Dylan-Forrest F. Greene, DINSMORE & SHOHL, LLP, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellee.

Judge(s): BOGGS, BUSH, and READLER, Circuit Judges

Court Appealed: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky at Covington

READLER, Circuit Judge. Chicken Salad Chick, a fast-casual restaurant chain, hired Tawna Bowles to serve as a cashier/service-team member at a franchise location in northern Kentucky. Bowles, who suffers from arthritis in her knees, requested that she be allowed to sit for five minutes after every ten minutes that she stood while on the job. When Chicken Salad Chick denied her request, Bowles sued the restaurant chain under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and the Kentucky Civil Rights Act (KCRA). In her complaint, Bowles alleged that the company failed to accommodate her disability and refused to engage in the ADA’s interactive-accommodation process. The district court granted summary judgment to Chicken Salad Chick. Because Bowles’s requested accommodation is unreasonable as a matter of law and her interactive-process claim depends upon a viable reasonable-accommodation claim, we affirm.

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