Joseph R. Matczak v. Frankford Candy and Chocolate Company, Joseph Matczak

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff was not required to show employees outside of the protected class “were treated more favorably than he was”
• rejecting a plaintiff’s negligent infliction of emotional distress claim where the only physical manifestation of plaintiff’s emotional distress was that he cried at least once a week after being fired
• reversing court’s dismissal of suit and holding that in case of epileptic employee who suffered one seizure in thirty years, the question of disability was better left for the jury
• “we cannot enumerate every possible element of a prima facie case due to the factual vagaries that distinguish all cases.”
• jury question whether plaintiff with seizures of short duration and limited restrictions substantially limited in major life activity
• prima facie case may be satisfied by showing that the position was filled by a person not belonging to the same category as the plaintiff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).