Anthimos Gogos v. AMS-Mechanical System, Incorpo

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• holding that welder sufficiently alleged he was qualified by stating he had forty-five years of welding experience and one month of experience at job in question while possessing chronic condition
• holding that, under the 2008 amendments to the ADA, the fact that an impairment is episodic, brief, or occurs infrequently \is no longer relevant to determining whether the impairment substantially limits a major life activity\
• explaining that the relevant inquiry under the amended ADA is whether the alleged impairments “despite their short duration . . . substantially impaired a major life activity when they occurred”
• finding that plaintiff adequately plead he was qualified to perform essential functions of his job where he had 45 years of experience as pipe welder and worked for defendant as welder and pipe fitter for more than one month before being fired
• finding plaintiff’s hypertension, though mitigated by blood pressure medication, qualified as disability under the ADA as without the medication plaintiff’s cardiovascular system would be substantially limited.
• plaintiff's episode of \very high blood pressure\ was a covered disability when it substantially impaired a major life activity

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