A Pennsylvania federal judge has refused to overturn a $159,000 jury verdict in an ADA suit by a man who said he was denied the right to return to work for 20 months after having two seizures brought on by taking creatine, a nutrition supplement, because his employer believed he had a “serious epileptic condition.”

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