Howard Baer, Inc. v. Schave

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice LAMBERT.

This Court granted discretionary review to consider what proof is necessary to establish that a medical restriction on heavy lifting is a “disability” for purposes of the Kentucky Civil Rights Act.1 To decide this issue, we must consider whether being disqualified from performance of a single, task-specific job qualifies an individual as disabled under the Act. The United States Supreme Court recently considered this question in two seminal disability discrimination cases, Toyota v. Williams 2 and Sutton v. United Air Lines,3 and we deem it…