Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sara Lee Corporation

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• holding that employee whose seizures had only a mild impact on sleeping, thinking, and caring for herself was not disabled under A D A
• holding that epilepsy was not a disability where the plaintiff did not have major motor or grand mal seizures, but rather “less severe” complex partial seizures causing her to “zone out” sporadically during the day
• noting that many people “fail to receive a full night of sleep,” but that this is insufficient to prove a substantial limitation on a major life activity
• observing that \the ADA operates as a shield against discrimi- nation; the statute is not a sword.\
• forgetting things “two or three times a week” does not rise to the level of a substantial limitation on ability to think
• discussing “intermittent manifestations” and concluding that limitations on ability to sleep, work, care for oneself were not significant

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