Amir Al-Dabagh v. Case Western Reserve Univ.

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

Authority to decide whether a medical student deserves a degree usually rests with the student’s school. In this unusual case, that did not happen. A federal district court found that Amir Al-Dabagh had proven himself worthy of a diploma and ordered Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine to give him one — disregarding the university’s determination that he lacked the professionalism required to discharge his duties responsibly. Because that lack-of-professionalism finding amounts to an academic judgment to which courts owe considerable deference, we…