A federal judge in Santa Ana, Calif., has thrown out a lawsuit against Capella University, which was being sued by a former student who accused the company of discrimination against people with disabilities.
The plaintiff, Jeffrey La Marca, argued that the online university violated the Americans With Disabilities Act by using technology that does not accommodate his learning disabilities, which he said included short-term memory loss.
The judge in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Southern Division, is expected to make known in coming weeks the reasoning behind the decision to throw out the case. Capella officials said the decision was based on a lack of evidence. —Dan Carnevale
