Mueck v. La Grange Acquisitions

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• explaining that “an impairment need not be ‘permanent or long- term’ to qualify as a disability”
• “Determining whether a plaintiff has a disability requires an individual assessment of the impact of the impairment on an individual’s major life activities.”
• “tak[ing] the opportunity to acknowledge, as our sister circuits have, that, following the ADAAA’s passage, an impairment need not be ‘permanent or long-term’ to qualify as a disability”
• “tak[ing] the opportunity to acknowledge, as our sister circuits have, that, following the ADAAA’s passage, an impairment need not be ‘permanent or long-term’ to qualify as a disability”
• employee’s binge drinking substantially impacted the “major life activities of thinking, concentrating, and caring for” oneself
• “Failure to request an accommodation, particularly where an employee’s disability is not obvious, will doom a claim.”

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• Mueck v. La Grange Acquisitions
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-08-04