Compass Group Beats Marijuana User’s NYC Disability Bias Claim

Compass Group USA Inc. defeated a medical marijuana user’s claim that its refusal to hire him violated New York City’s disability discrimination law because the law doesn’t define marijuana use as a disability, a federal court said.

Christopher Scholl’s alternative argument that he’s disabled due to back pain—the condition for which he received a legal marijuana certificate—failed because he didn’t plead that Compass discriminated against him based on a back-related disability, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said.

Compass owns Eurest Services Inc., which provides food and facilities services to corporate offices. Eurest hired Scholl, ...