Southeastern Community College v. Davis

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Southeastern Community College v. Davis
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 23, 1979 Decided June 11, 1979
Full case name	Southeastern Community College v. Frances B. Davis
Citations	442 U.S. 397 (more) 99 S. Ct. 2361; 60 L. Ed. 2d 980
Case history
Prior	424 F. Supp. 1341 (E.D.N.C. 1976); reversed, 574 F.2d 1158 (4th Cir. 1978)
Holding
Nothing in the language or history of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 limits the freedom of an educational institution to require reasonable physical qualifications for admission to a clinical training program.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinion
Majority	Powell, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 701 et seq.

Southeastern Community College v. Davis, 442 U.S. 397 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court Case from 1979. Its plaintiff was a hearing-impaired student who, after being denied access to the school's nursing department, filed a lawsuit against claiming injustice to the Fourteenth amendment and to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.^[1]