CHICAGO – FordHarrison LLP, one of the country’s largest management-side labor and employment law firms, filed an Amicus Curiae brief in the Seventh Circuit on behalf of the Illinois Association for Defense Trial Counsel in support of the Chicago Transit Authority in the obesity discrimination case, Richardson v. Chicago Transit Authority. The brief filed in this case urges the Seventh Circuit to affirm the trial court’s determination that obesity is not a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).