ARGENYI v. CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY

Nos. 11-3336, 11-3461.

703 F.3d 441 (2013)

Michael S. ARGENYI, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee v. CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY, Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant United States; Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing; National Disability Rights Network; Association of Medical Professionals with Hearing Losses, Amici on Behalf of Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: January 15, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Caroline Vargas , argued, Baltimore, MD, Marc Charmatz , Debra Patkin , Silver Spring, MD, Dianne D. DeLair , Lincoln, NE, Jeffrey Archer Miller , Michael Steven Stein , Baltimore, MD, on the brief, for Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

Scott P. Moore , argued, Allison Balus , on the brief, Omaha, NE, for Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

Mark Lenard Gross , USA, Teresa Kwong , USA, Washington, D.C., Mark L. Merrell , Steven Robert Rech , Houston, TX, Jennifer Lee Gravitz , Rochester, NY, on the brief, for Amici on Behalf of Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

Before MURPHY, BENTON, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.


MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

Michael Argenyi, a young man with a serious hearing impairment, moved from Seattle to Omaha, Nebraska to attend medical school at Creighton University. Before enrolling Argenyi requested specific accommodations from Creighton for his hearing impairment. They were denied, but Argenyi repeatedly renewed them during his first two years at Creighton Medical School. He explained that without these accommodations he was unable to follow lectures,...

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