The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) protects employees from employment discrimination on the basis of disability. To prove an employee has an actual disability, the employee must show he or she has “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of such individual.” Each of those terms is defined by the ADA and by case law and can require a very technical showing. To find out if you are protected, you should speak with a Cleveland employee discrimination lawyer or ADA lawyer.