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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Rossman finds that the lower court improperly found in favor of the Utah Department of Corrections regarding a former employee's failure-to-accommodate claim. The former employee is missing his second and fifth digits on each hand and claims that the department, which hired him with full awareness of his disability, refused to comply with his accommodation request for a different model of handgun that he could more easily handle. While the lower court did properly rule in favor of the department on his disparate-treatment and retaliation claims stemming from the request, his failure-to-accommodate claim should have been allowed to proceed given that it was a "plausibly reasonable" request and was connected to a key feature of his job responsibilities. Affirmed in part.