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· 10/15/1996

Mayer v. University of Minnesota

Citations

  • 940 F. Supp. 1474
  • 7 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 1551
  • 1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15481
  • 1996 WL 599234

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that both the Rehabilitation Act and the ADA were valid exercises of congressional power and that the University could not assert Eleventh Amendment immunity
  • observing that Congress is not prevented “from finding that another class of persons has been subjected to a history of unequal treatment and legislating pursuant to its enforcement powers under the Fourteenth Amendment to protect that class of persons from arbitrary discrimination.”

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Judges: Tunheim

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