Garcia v. S.U.N.Y. Health Sciences Center of Brooklyn

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 *104psychologist who subsequently diagnosed him as having attention deficit disorder and a learning disability. Relying on this diagnosis, Garcia sought readmission to SUNY. Although SUNY agreed to readmit Garcia, the two could not come to terms…