v. General Electric Astrospace, 101 F.3d 947, 951 (3d Cir.1996). The ADA protects three categories of “qualified individuals with a disability,” 42 U.S.C. § 12112(a), by defining disability as (A) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual; (B) a record of such an impairment; or (C) being regarded as having such an impairment. 42 U.S.C. § 12102(2). Plaintiff alleges that she is a member of all three protected categories by virtue of suffering from clinical depression. (Complaint 154.) She therefore has placed her mental condition directly at issue in this case, at least with respect to her claims that she belongs to the first two protected categories. Cf. Holihan v. Lucky Stores, 87 F.3d 362, 366 (9th Cir.1996) (<HOLDING>), petition for cert. filed, 65 U.S.L.W. 3370
recognizing cause of action by class member against class counsel for negligence in providing notice holding that no class member may opt out of a rule 23b1 class action holding that plaintiff who was iranian is a member of a protected class recognizing that plaintiff who is not actually disabled may still be a member of third protected class holding that a class plaintiff who seeks to assert statutory rights to protect a class of which he is a member is not asserting rights antagonistic to any members of that class