In the fall of 2009, plaintiff Manuel Delgado, a math teacher at Sequoia Union High School since 1997, requested accommodations pertaining to his diabetic condition and anxiety disorder. He claimed his accommodations were not met and he had to continue teaching remedial math classes that allegedly caused bouts of anxiety and his blood sugar to spike. Delgado sued the Sequoia Union School District. He alleged the school district’s actions constituted disability discrimination, retaliation, and failure to accommodate. The parties originally agreed to settle the case for $25,000 in October 2011, but Delgado repudiated the agreement and the matter was assigned to trial one year later. At trial, Delgado claimed that he requested accommodation in the fall of 2009, which would have allowed him to only teach certain parts of the curriculum that did not include remedial math classes. He also claimed he requested a classroom close to a bathroom to accommodate his medical conditions. Delgado claimed the school district denied his requests and retaliated against him after he aired his complaints. He alleged that the forms of retaliation included two negative personnel evaluations in the years that followed his requests, as well as the administration failing to support his discipline methods for his students. Defense counsel argued that because Delgado’s disabilities did not impede his ability to teach, other than allegedly not being about to teach remedial math students, Delgado was not a qualified disabled person. The school district contended that it agreed to some accommodation requests, but that Delgado’s teaching requests were unreasonable, in that he was only qualified to teach the ninth grade curriculum, which included remedial classes. It also claimed that Delgado’s issues began in 2008, when the school’s new principal made changes to the curriculum that included eliminating business and computer classes taught by Delgado. The district further claimed that Delgado’s alleged disability did not prevent him from teaching, and that his request was more a matter of simply not wanting to teach remedial math classes that he was qualified for., Delgado claimed that the stress of teaching remedial classes, the refusal of his requests, and the subsequent retaliation exacerbated his anxiety disorder and made him fear that his Type 1 diabetes could become more advanced. Thus, he asked the jury to award $350,000 in general damages. Defense counsel argued that Delgado had an underlying anxiety disorder related to his diabetes, which was not caused or worsened by the classes he taught, by having his requests denied, or by any alleged retaliation.