# Recent Discrimination Ruling **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 9, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-discrimination-ruling/368022 "2006-08-09T16:55:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-discrimination-ruling/368022/1 "2006-08-09T16:55:08Z")
The Ninth Circuit recently ruled that barring a student with a disability using a wheelchair was discrimination and forced the school to allow her to be on the track team. I believe it was in the San Diego area. Does anyone know the name of the case? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-discrimination-ruling/368022/2 "2006-08-09T16:59:51Z")
Wait…whaaaa? Is this a joke that you’ve accidentally posted in the wrong forum? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-discrimination-ruling/368022/3 "2006-08-09T17:02:09Z")
That’s kind of bizarre as they do have athletic competitions for people in wheelchairs. Wouldn’t going into one of those be a little more fair? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-discrimination-ruling/368022/4 "2006-08-09T17:19:19Z")
I’m not familar with the case you mean. There was, however, in the news from Maryland, last month, this. Is it what you mean? [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/24/AR2006032402089\_pf.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/24/AR2006032402089_pf.html) > [@](#): > > McFadden, born in Russia with spina bifida and paralyzed from the waist down, works out every day after school with her team. A world-class wheelchair athlete, she loves racing. She also relishes the camaraderie of the locker room and the excitement of traveling to track meets with the other girls. > > Once she’s at the meets, though, Howard County school policy requires that – for safety reasons – she split with her teammates and compete in separate wheelchair events. > > Now, she has gone to federal court to seek an injunction that would allow her to race alongside runners in the same events. She doesn’t want to compete in scoring – although in her chair, with her legs tucked behind her, she flies faster than many runners in the 800-meter event. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-discrimination-ruling/368022/5 "2006-08-09T17:21:25Z")
[This](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/17/AR2006041701886.html) is probably the case the OP had in mind; it’s Baltimore, not San Diego, though. > [@](#): > > Tatyana McFadden, 16, a sophomore at Atholton High School in Columbia, will be allowed on the track at the same time as the other competitors but will be scored separately under a preliminary injunction granted yesterday in Baltimore by U.S. District Court Judge Andre M. Davis. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-discrimination-ruling/368022/6 "2006-08-09T17:25:48Z")
That sounds like it. Could have sworn it was 9th Circuit though.