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The court affirmed the directed verdict in favor of PNC Bank, finding that the plaintiff's broken hands constituted a transitory and minor impairment not covered by disability discrimination law, and that she failed to establish she was perceived as disabled at the time of discharge.
Disability discrimination perceived prima facie transitory and minor. A plaintiff claiming disability discrimination cannot make out a prima facie case of being perceived as disabled if the plaintiff's injuries are transitory and minor — defined under federal law as an impairment with an actual or expected duration of six months or less. Although plaintiff-employee had been placed on disability leave after breaking bones in both hands, her injuries healed and she returned to work in six weeks. The court did not err by directing a verdict in favor the defendant-employer because the plaintiff's injuries were thus transitory and minor, excluding her from a "perceived as" disabled discrimination claim.
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