NUNIES v. HIE HOLDINGS, INC.

No. 16-16494.

904 F.3d 837 (2018)

Herman N. NUNIES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HIE HOLDINGS, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 17, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Brower (argued), Honolulu, Hawaii, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Marguerite S. N. Fujie (argued) and Lisa W. Cataldo , McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon LLP, Honolulu, Hawaii, for Defendant-Appellee.

Susan R. Oxford (argued), Attorney; Ann Noel Occhialino , Acting Assistant General Counsel; Jennifer S. Goldstein , Associate General Counsel; James L. Lee , Deputy General Counsel; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Before: A. Wallace Tashima, William A. Fletcher, and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

In 2008, Congress enacted the ADA Amendments Act ("ADAAA"), which broadened the definition of disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101 et seq. As relevant to this appeal, the ADAAA expanded the scope of the ADA's "regarded-as" definition of disability...

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