Mealey's (September 12, 2019, 11:17 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 20, faced with opposing arguments on whether obesity alone can be a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), found that it didn’t need to reach a conclusion as the employee arguing bias by his former employer failed to show that it was his weight and not his falsifying of records that resulted in his termination (Jose Valtierra v. Medtronic Inc., No. 17-15282, 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 24738)....