Peace Corps Gets Rejected Volunteers’ Disability Bias Row Pruned

The Peace Corps convinced a federal judge to narrow the claims a lawsuit alleging the foreign public service agency rejected a group of would-be volunteers based on their disabilities.

The volunteers allege that the program’s mental health screening guidelines run afoul of a federal disability law and prohibitions against arbitrary and capricious agency action. But the Rehabilitation Act doesn’t give them an avenue to sue and the guidelines aren’t a final agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act, the US District Court for the District of Columbia said Tuesday.

Disqualifying criteria under the Peace Corps’ guidelines include the use of ...