Michael Aucutt v. Six Flags Over Mid-America, Inc., a Missouri Corporation in Good Standing, Equal Employment Advisory Council, Amicus Curiae

How courts have described this case

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• holding that deficient performance on a physical test for one security guard employer did not demonstrate that the plaintiff was substantially limited in working as a security guard generally
• recognizing that mere suspicion, conjecture, or allegation that the asserted reason is pretext and the employer’s true motivation was discrimination will not, without more, defeat the employer’s motion for summary judgment
• stating that “fact that [employer] was aware of his medical problems is insufficient to establish that [employer] ‘regarded’ him as disabled”
• holding that a plaintiff alleging age discrimination in the context of a reduction-in- force must also “provide some additional showing that age was a factor in the termination” in order to make a prima facie case
• stating that \fact that [employer] was aware of his medical problems is insufficient to establish that [employer] 'regarded' him as disabled\
• holding plaintiff failed to show he was substantially limited in major life activities where \a 25-pound lifting restriction was the only medical limitation placed upon [plaintiff’s] activities\

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