Opinion ID: 3011078
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Time Frame of the Regarded as Claim

Text: We agree with the District Court that Pathmark regarded Taylor as able to work on April 29, 1994, but that is not material to Taylor's regarded as claim. Taylor's claim is that Pathmark erroneously regarded him as entirely and permanently unable to work at any job after it received Dr. Moore's evaluation in September 1995; his regarded as claim must be limited to the period following that evaluation. Taylor claims that he was not, in fact, so disabled that he could not perform any Pathmark jobs. 15 Taylor notes that he provided Pathmark with a letter on December 19, 1995, that stated that his restrictions as of December 1995 were the same as they had been during the November 1992-April 1994 period when he was working at Pathmark. The temporary July to December 1995 restrictions had been lifted. A reasonable factfinder could conclude that Taylor was not so impaired that he could not work at all after that point, and therefore that Pathmark's misunderstanding of his condition prevented him from getting work at Pathmark for some period after December 19, 1995. Under this scenario, Taylor had a viable regarded as claim after that date.