United States v. Terry Christensen

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a court reviewing evidence at the summary judgment stage “must resist the trap of assessing the credibility of witnesses, choosing between competing inferences or balancing the relative weight of conflicting evidence”
• finding a student was not otherwise qualified because she failed her courses, both with and without accommodations
• rejecting argument that student was otherwise qualified under the Rehab Acy “because she had passed several classes” where student also failed several courses in violation of program requirements
• upholding summary judgment against medical student who “failed approximately seven of nine exams in pharmacology, three out of five exams in osteopathic manipulative medicine, and three out of six exams in Topics in Medicine”
• “Academic decisions, such as whether a student is qualified for, or entitled to promotion within a program, must be left to the broad discretion of the academic institution.”
• “In the context of a university, a person is ‘otherwise qualified’ if she is able to meet all of the program’s requirements in spite of her disability, with or without a reasonable accommodation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).