Medline Industries Worker Lacks ADA Claim Over Care for Granddad

A Medline Industries Inc. chemist can’t show he was discriminated against for caring for his ailing grandfather or fired for complaining about his boss’s allegedly related harassment, the Seventh Circuit ruled Thursday.

Frank Pierri lacked evidence of bias by association under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the court said. He argued only “cursorily” that his case fell under one of the three ADA associational bias theories the circuit has previously recognized and he didn’t put forward a new theory that fit his facts, it said.

Pierri had earned high marks and promotions over his first four years and his supervisor ...