Tenth Circuit Declines To Force USOC To Cover Paralympians

In a majority decision, a panel of judges from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has turned away a bid by several Paralympic athletes to secure funding that is equal to what able-bodied Olympians receive from the United States Olympic Committee. Specifically, the court declined to modify Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, a national law that protects qualified individuals from discrimination based on their disability, “absent statutory or regulatory authority to import, wholes