Legal Opinion
Sinapi v. RI Board of Bar Examiners
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 11, 2018No. 16-2251PPublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PONSOR, District Judge.
Anthony Sinapi, an individual with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and anxiety, sought certain accommodations to assist him in taking the Rhode Island bar exam. The Rhode Island Board of Bar Examiners (the Board) denied his request and, on review, the Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court denied his petition for reversal of the Board's decision. Immediately following this denial, Sinapi filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island against the members of the Board. The district court issued a temporary restraining order…
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