BERG v. FLORIDA DEPT. LABOR & EMPLOYMENT SECURITY

No. 96-3413.

163 F.3d 1251 (1998)

August BERG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT SECURITY, DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 30, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ted E. Karatinos, Nicholas E. Karatinos, Seeley & Karatinos, P.A., St. Petersburg, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Laura Boyd Pearce, Boyd Law Firm, P.A., Tallahasse, FL, for Amicus Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida, Inc.

Edward A. Dion, Tallahassee, FL, Andrew J. Meyers, Florida Dept. of Labor, Office of General Counsel, Delray Beach, FL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before TJOFLAT and BARKETT, Circuit Judges, and HOWARD, Senior District Judge.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

A deaf student appeals a magistrate judge's decision, following a bench trial, that a state vocational rehabilitation program's refusal to fund the student's legal education does not constitute discrimination on the basis of the student's disability in violation of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 701 et seq. (1994). We affirm.

I.

In 1991, August Berg, a profoundly deaf Florida resident, applied to the Florida...

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