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· 12/9/1998

Lisa Kaltenberger v. Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine

Citations

  • 162 F.3d 432
  • 8 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 1625
  • 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 30904
  • 1998 WL 849746

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that an employer is “not obligated to provide accommodation until [the] plaintiff had provided a proper diagnosis of [his disability] and requested specific accommodation”
  • observing that no reasonable trier of fact could conclude that the college failed to reasonably accommodate the plaintiffs disability where plaintiff had already failed two courses in her first-year program before she requested specific accommodation
  • finding that the university “did not fail to reasonably accommodate plaintiffs learning disability by refusing to waive its policy regarding the retaking of examinations, especially in light of the other accommodations which were made for her.”
  • allowing student to attend abbreviated 10 remedial summer program instead of retaking failed examination would 11 diminish podiatric training standards
  • allowing student to attend abbreviated 10 remedial summer program instead of retaking failed examination would 11 diminish podiatric training standards
  • telling “an academic counselor at the College that she thought she might have [a disability] simply did not impose an obligation to offer accommodations”

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Judges: Guy, Clay, Gilman

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