Micah in dorm

Micah's Dorm Case Timeline

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    Dorm Case

  • Micah applies for winter 2008 housing

    Micah applies for winter 2008 housing

  • Micah's campus residence application initially approved

  • Micah is told he can’t live on campus

  • Micah meets with Mary Beth Snyder

    Micah meets with Mary Beth Snyder, Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management at OU & Lionel Maten, Housing Director at OU, to try to change housing eligibility policy

  • Micah is told the policy will not be changed

  • Micah waits until fall for campaigning

    Micah waits until fall for campaigning because campus will be more active then
    “Student says university changed rules to exclude him” by Sean Garner of The Oakland Press

  • MEDIA “Student With Disabilities Takes on Oakland University” WDIV 4 Detroit

  • Micah addressed OU Board of Trustees (BOT) for the first time

    BOT asks OU to review its policy

  • Micah is told again, policy will not be changed

  • OU Student Congress unofficially extends support

    OU Student Congress unofficially extends support

    OU Student Congress unofficially extends support, with various members collecting signatures for a petition in his support. (image) Micah with friends and Student Congree supporters, Andrew Bashi and Kristin Dayag holding his petition with over 1,000 OU student signatures

  • “Disabled man fights to live in OU dorm” by Jerry Wolffe of The Oakland Press

    Oakland Post
  • We won!

    We won!

    U.S. District Judge Patrick Duggan grants a permanent injunction and requires Oakland University to allow Micah Fialka-Feldman to live in a campus dormitory. OU violated the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, when it refused to provide a reasonable accommodation to waive its Housing Department's rule that students must be "seeking a degree" to live on-campus. The Court found OU had failed to conduct an "individualized analysis" of Micah's reasonable accommodation request and it cannot rely, as it di