Legal Opinion

Singh v. George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided December 9, 2011No. 09-7032PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion for the Court by Circuit Judge ROGERS.

ROGERS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is before the court following a remand. In the first appeal the court established the legal standards the district court must apply in determining whether Carolyn Singh, a former medical student, had an impairment that substantially limited her in the major life activity of learning under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101 et seq. Specifically, the court rejected both the district court’s use of a comparison group of other medical students, holding that the correct comparator was the…

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