(Source: BNA Daily Labor Report, October 3, 2016)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court Oct. 3 declined to review a rejected job applicant’s claim that morbid obesity should be covered as an impairment under the Americans with Disabilities Act (Morriss v. BNSF Ry. Co., U.S., No. 16-233, cert. denied 10/3/16 ). Melvin Morriss, a 285-pound worker denied a machinist job by BNSF Railway Co., sought review of a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit decision that the ADA doesn’t cover obesity unless the condition is linked to an underlying physiological disorder.
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