Nicholas Knapp v. Northwestern University, an Illinois Not-For-Profit Corporation, and Rick Taylor

How courts have described this case

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• School was justified in preventing athlete with heart condition from playing basketball because its reliance on medical evidence regarding risk was made with reason and rationality
• decisions “that certain activities are too risky for a disabled person . . . . cannot rest on paternalistic concerns” or “unfounded fears or stereotypes”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).