An epileptic applicant could not establish disability discrimination by United States Steel Corp. (USS) when he was denied a utility person position after stopping his anti-seizure medication, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
Before the plaintiff applied to work at USS’s Midwest plant, he had experienced three or four seizures during his lifetime. The first occurred when he was 8 years old and the second when he was 22. His third seizure happened in June 2014 and was followed two months later by what may have been either a heat-related illness or a fourth seizure.
