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182130P.pdf 07/23/2019 Jeremy Heuton v. Ford Motor Company
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-2130
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, of Melloy and Grasz, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Missouri Human Rights Act. Under the MHRA, even if plaintiff
has shown that he has a physical limitation, he must nevertheless show
Ford wrongly believed that his physical impairment (here the absence of a
left hand) substantially impaired a major life activity; because this case
only involves the major life activity of working or employment, the broad
range-of-jobs standard applied, and the district court correctly applied
that standard; the district court did not err in concluding Ford only
considered plaintiff as unable to perform the single, particular job he
applied for - entry-level assembly on an assembly line; plaintiff waived
the argument that Ford was precluded from relitigating the issue of
whether it regarded him as significantly restricted from performing either
a class of jobs or a broad range of jobs in various classes because the
issue was not raised before the district court; plaintiff presented no
meaningful argument in this appeal regarding his retaliation claim, and
the court would not consider it.