A nonprofit hospital employee who applied for disability benefits from Social Security, claiming total disability beginning the day after he was fired, has seen his discrimination claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act dismissed by a federal District Court in New York. The MRI technologist’s assertion, without explanation, that he was qualified to perform the essential functions of his job on December 1, 2010, but was completely disabled the following day precluded his ability to claim that he was terminated for discriminatory reasons under the ADA, the Court said. Edwin Estrada had been hired in 2007 to help perform cardiac MRI exams. His annual performance reviews generally...