ZUKLE v. REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

No. 97-16708.

166 F.3d 1041 (1999)

Sherrie Lynn ZUKLE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided February 23, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan Siegel, Hunter Pyle, Siegel & Yee, Oakland, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Charity Kenyon, Diepenbrock, Wulff, Plant & Hannegan, Sacramento, California, for the defendant-appellee.

Before: ALARCON, O'SCANNLAIN and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges.


O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether a medical school violated the Americans with Disabilities Act or the Rehabilitation Act when it dismissed a learning disabled student for failure to meet the school's academic standards.

I

Sherrie Lynn Zukle entered the University of California, Davis School of Medicine ("Medical School") in the fall of 1991 for a four year course of study. The first two years comprise the "basic science" or "pre...

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