12 year old commits suicide after being bullied for alopecia

[Ms. Toad]

84. You're not going to be able to find anything conclusive.

The ADA is, by design, an individualized decision for every person with that condition. As I indicated earlier, there are only a few conditions which are universally, for everyone with that condition, a disablility (e.g. blindness, deafness, AIDS, epilepsy are a few which are universally recognized as disabilities.)

In other words, under the ADA, for some alopecia may be a disability - for others, it may not be. There's not going to be one decision which determines whether it is, or is not, a disability. I responded to an assertion that that the ADA doesn't mention alopeica, by explaining how the law is set up, and why it is completely irrelevant that alopecia is not expressly mentioned in the ADA.

Google is not going to find all of the relevant cases for you. The Federal Courts do not have exclusive jurisdiction over cases arising out of the ADA, so claims could have been brought in any common pleas court in any county, in any state, or in any federal court. Google doesn't reach all of those. And no, I'm not going to search all decisions in all courts to find you a case. If you're that curious about whether a jury has ever determined that (for a particular person) alopecia is a disability, feel free to head over to your local law school and see if they have a public access to Westlaw or Lexis and search your little heart out.