In early 2011, plaintiff Jeffrey Shoemaker, a firearms instructor with the rank of Police Officer III, was working in the Training Division of the Los Angeles Police Department when he severely injured his left knee on a slippery ramp at a shooting range. He claimed the department failed to engage in the interactive process to determine his work restrictions and failed to accommodate those work restrictions. As a result, Shoemaker was assigned to be the primary range instructor before he was fully healed. When he objected to the position out of fear of exacerbating his , Shoemaker’s supervisor simply reassigned him to be a secondary instructor. Shoemaker claimed that such assignment was equally physically demanding and that it continued to violate his restrictions. He claimed that when he expressed his opposition to the department’s practices, he was harassed and retaliated against. Shoemaker sued the city of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Police Department. He alleged that the defendants failed to engage in the interactive process and failure to accommodate his restrictions. He also alleged that the defendants’ actions constituted discrimination, harassment, and retaliation based on a disability in violation of the Fair Employment and Housing Act. The LAPD was erroneously named as a defendant, as it is a department within the city of Los Angeles. Thus, the matter continued against the city only. The city contended that it complied with the Fair Employment and Housing Act and that it did not discriminate against or harass Shoemaker based on his alleged disability, nor did it retaliate against him. It also contended that Shoemaker’s actions and inactions with his height and weight contributed to the physical conditions for which he sought compensation. The LAPD claimed it accommodated Shoemaker each time he let the department know that a prior accommodation was not working for him., Shoemaker, a nine-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, returned to work as a primary firearms instructor with accommodations. However, he claimed that his assignment as primary range instructor, and then as secondary instructor, aggravated his pre-existing .