Top Court Declines Medical-School Case

The U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to take up a lawsuit challenging the system in which medical-school graduates are assigned to programs that train them as physicians.

Without comment, the Supreme Court let stand a June 2006 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that upheld a federal district court's earlier dismissal of the lawsuit.

The class-action complaint, filed in 2002 on behalf of 200,000 medical residents, alleged that the National

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