Fatty lost the lower court, but won the right to appeal  He lost the appeal, too: And when Morriss appealed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld that ruling. That's setting a precedent, it will be very difficult for other courts to ignore these decisions.  This one is interesting, too:  The courts also added the fact that Morriss’ obesity may cause a “predisposition to illness or disease” didn’t qualify him as disabled under the ADA either — as the ADA doesn’t regard predisposition as a factor in determining whether or not someone is disabled.  Unlike the issue of safety-related jobs that's a rather general decision - it will be very difficult to bring up this argument again in any other case, regardless of the type of job it's about.