KOHN v. STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA

No. 20-17316.

119 F.4th 693 (2024)

Benjamin KOHN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA; California Committee of Bar Examiners, and Their Agents in Their Official Capacity, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 21, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory R. Michael (argued) and Dorothy C. Yamamoto, Michael Yamamoto LLP, Berkeley, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Brady R. Dewar (argued), Rita K. Himes, Robert G. Retana, Ellin Davtyan, and Jean R. Krasilnikoff, Office of the General Counsel, State Bar of California, San Francisco, California; Kirsten Galler, Office of the General Counsel, State Bar of California, Los Angeles, California; for Defendants-Appellees.

Jinny Kim and Claudia Center, Disability Rights Advocates, Berkeley, California; Laura A. Scalia, Legal Aid at Work, San Francisco; for Amici Curiae Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Legal Aid at Work, et al..

Julian Sarkar, SarkarLaw, San Francsico, California, for Amicus Curiae Sarkar-Law.

Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw, Consuelo M. Callahan, and Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Benjamin Kohn, a licensed attorney, brings a civil rights lawsuit against the State Bar of California contending that the State Bar's refusal to provide him certain test-taking accommodations violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq.; Section 504 of...

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