Case: Disability Discrimination/Hiring (M.D. Pa.)

March 12, 2026, 11:57 PM UTC

A federal district court denied Burger King’s motion to dismiss disability discrimination claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act brought by a job applicant with intellectual and learning disabilities who wasn’t hired for a crew member position, finding she plausibly pleaded both “actual disability” and “regarded as” disability claims and sufficiently established all elements of her prima facie discrimination case.

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