Supreme Court Upholds Ruling on Medical Exam

The U.S. Supreme Court last month let stand a ruling that a medical student with a reading and writing impairment was not entitled under the Americans With Disabilities Act to extra time on a medical-licensing test.

The former University of Michigan student, Michael Gonzales, had asked to be given one-and-a-half times the standard 12 hours that students have to take the two-day test, the first of three examinations they must pass to receive a license to practice medicine anywhere in

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