| Venue: | 6th Cir |
| Facts: | Grindle is a driver/dock worker. He hurts himself on the job, and his knee is wrecked. The injury and his recovery are exacerbated by his obesity. He's eventually terminated because he can't perform his job. |
| Posture: | EEOC files suit on behalf of Grindle. District court finds that non-physiologically-caused obesity is not an impairment under ADA. |
| Issue: | Was the district court right about that? |
| Holding: | Yes. Affirmed. |
| Rule: | Language of the statute, basically. If we extend the statute to
cover all "abnormal" persons (whatever that means), we're
departing from the spirit of the ADA, and just creating a
catch-all vehicle for suits about any kind of discrimination.
And this is the EEOC's own definition, incidentally. |
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