Airgas to Defend Firing Worker With Cancer Over Drug Test (1)

An attorney for a former Airgas USA LLC employee with cancer will try to revive his lawsuit alleging his termination for a supposedly positive cannabis test was a pretext for disability discrimination.

Counsel for Murray Fisher will appear at oral argument Thursday at the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to challenge a district judge’s decision throwing out his claim that the medical and specialty gas supplier illegally fired him because he had cancer. Fisher—who used legal hemp to treat cancer-related pain—maintained that he never used cannabis and the results of the drug test were false.

The case ...