When 405-pound Gary Sellick found he couldn't fit into any of the chairs that employees at a Denny's restaurant provided for him, one employee couldn't help but start laughing at the sight of his ordeal. This prompted Sellick to leave the restaurant humiliated, and to file a $1.3 million lawsuit against Denny's for inflicting emotional abuse and for failing to accommodate his disability—classified as "morbid obesity" under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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