Lawyer With ADHD Comes Up Short in 6th Cir. Disability Bias Case

A federal appeals court rejected an Ohio lawyer’s bid to revive his disability discrimination claim, tied to law firm Gallagher Sharp LLP’s decision to fire him after rejecting accommodation requests for his attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Daniel Lonergan didn’t establish that he met the initial criteria for claiming bias under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a unanimous panel of judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit found Friday. The panel upheld a lower court’s dismissal of the case.

Lonergan, who represented himself in the litigation, didn’t include in his lawsuit any details of the reasonable accommodations ...