limits” means either the inability to perform a major life activity, or a significant restriction on a major life activity as compared to the general population. 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2(j)(l). The EEOC regulations provide that, in determining whether an individual is substantially limited in a major life activity, a court should consider: 1) the nature and severity of the impairment; 2) the duration of the impairment; and 3) its long term impact. 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2(j)(2). Generally, short term restrictions are not substantially limiting. Roush, 96 F.3d at 843. “[T]emporary, non-chronic impairments of short duration, with little or no long term impact, are usually not disabilities.” 29 C.F.R. Pt. 1630 App.; see also Sanders v. Arneson Prods., Inc., 91 F.3d 1351, 1354 (9th Cir.1996) (<HOLDING>); McDonald v. Pennsylvania Dep’t of Pub.
holding that there was no employment contract where personnel manual provided that after three months an employee became a permanent employee where there was no additional expression as to duration holding that an impairment lasting three and one half months with no residual effects was not of sufficient duration to fall within the protections of the ada holding that there was no indication of a continuing scheme because the undisputed facts showed that the alleged scheme was of a relatively short duration  between three and eleven months holding one and onehalf months establishes causation while three months is too long and does not holding that in order to establish liability under the ada the plaintiff must demonstrate that the defendant was an employer within the meaning of the statute