Rishel v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• stating that, under the ADA, an employer’s awareness of an employee’s impairment, without more, is insufficient to support a “regarded as” claim
• dismissing wrongful discharge claim under North Carolina law based on perceived disability under NCPDPA
• dismissing North Carolina wrongful discharge claim because the ADEA claim failed
• dismissing North Carolina wrongful discharge claim because the ADEA claim failed
• “This ‘reasonable jury' standard [set forth in Desert Palace ] is precisely the same as the standard for defeating a motion for summary judgment.”
• “When considering a wrongful-discharge claim on the basis of age under North Carolina law, [courts] should apply the same standards that apply under the ADEA.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).