Thiersaint v. Department of Homeland Security

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How courts have described this case

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• holding that medical decisions and medical negligence are not ordinarily within scope of ADA or the Rehabilitation Act
• concluding that inmates’ claims under the Rehabilitation Act and ADA were properly dismissed for failure to state a claim as they were based on medical treatment decisions
• holding that an ADA claim arising from a denial of medical treatment is likely not viable where “the handicapping condition is related to the condition to be 28 treated” and is “the reason [the plaintiff] was seeking medical treatment”
• observing that “purely medical decisions . . . do not ordinarily fall within the scope of the ADA”
• explaining that “purely medical decisions . . . do not ordinarily fall within the scope of the ADA or Rehabilitation Act”
• observing that “purely medical decisions . . . do not ordinarily fall within the scope of the ADA”

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