Francisco GARCIA, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
S.U.N.Y. HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER OF BROOKLYN; Stephen E. Fox, Ph.D., individually and in official capacity; Jacqueline S. Jakway, individually and in official capacity; Lorraine Terracina, Ph.D., individually and as Dean of Academic Affairs or her successor, Irwin M. Weiner, M.D., individually and as Dean of the College of Medicine or his successor; and Russell Miller, M.D., individually and as President of the State University of New York Health Sciences Center or his successor, Defendants-Appellees, and
UNITED STATES of America, Intervenor.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued January 25, 2001.
Decided September 25, 2001.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Benjamin Z. Holczer, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Mark Gimpel, Deputy Solicitor General (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York; Deon J. Nossel, Assistant Solicitor General, of counsel), New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.
(William R. Yeomans, United States Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division; Jessica Dunsay Silver; Seth M. Galanter; Washington, DC; for the United States as Intervenor.).
(Richard N. Simpson; Amy Ledoux; Sam R. Hananel; Ross, Dixon & Bell, L.L.P.; Washington, DC; S. Mark Goodman; Michael Hiestand; Arlington, VA; for Amicus Curiae Student Press Law Center on behalf of Plaintiff-Appellant.).
(Ogden A. Lewis; Daniel E. Wenner; Andrew H. Tannenbaum; Davis Polk & Wardwell; New York, NY; for Amici Curiae Access Now, The Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York, Disability Advocates, Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, League for the Hard of Hearing, Mood Disorders Support Group, National Association of the Deaf, National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems, The National Multiple Sclerosis Society-New York City Chapter, New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, New York State Independent Living Council, and the State of Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities in Support of Plaintiff-Appellant.).
Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, OAKES and PARKER, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge:
This appeal stems from plaintiff-appellant Francisco Garcia's dismissal from a New York state medical school, the State University of New York Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn ("SUNY"), following his repeated failure to successfully complete the first-year medical school curriculum. After his dismissal, Garcia visited a psychologist who subsequently diagnosed him as having attention deficit...
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