Felkins v. City of Lakewood

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that expert evidence is not required when the alleged impairments “are susceptible to observation by an ordinary person.”
• permitting a lay witness to testify to “someone's night sweats, continuous coughing, and gradual weakening, [. . .] but only an expert could testify to whether a patient's tuberculosis “is incipient or has been arrested.”
• lay evidence “based on scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge” “is inadmissible in court and thus cannot be used to oppose summary judgment”
• plaintiff “had to present sufficient evidence to prove (1) that she has a condition . . . (2) that substantially limits at least one of her five identified major life activities”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).