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2nd Circuit tosses Harvard Law grad s Rehabilitation Act claim over bar exam accommodations
Image from Shutterstock.com. The New York State Board of Law Examiners has sovereign immunity from a lawsuit claim by a Harvard Law School graduate who sued over failure to accommodate her anxiety-related disability, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New York ruled against Tamara Wyche, who alleged in a June 2016 suit that she lost her job at Ropes & Gray after she flunked the bar exam twice. She passed the bar on her third try in February 2015 after she was given double time to take the exam. ....
ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT 2nd Circ. Trims Harvard Grad s Disability Suit Over Bar Exam Law360 (April 28, 2021, 10:37 PM EDT) The Second Circuit ruled Wednesday that sovereign immunity blocks a Harvard Law grad s Rehabilitation Act claim that New York s Board of Law Examiners failed to accommodate her anxiety-related disability as she sat for the bar exam, reversing a lower court decision. In a unanimous, published decision penned by U.S. Circuit Judges Debra Ann Livingston, the three-judge panel rejected plaintiff Tamara Wyche s argument the board has waived its right to sovereign immunity under the 11th Amendment by receiving money from the state s sprawling Unified Court System, which, she had argued, in turn receives money from the federal government. ....