A federal judge in Illinois has dismissed a lawsuit brought by an attorney who claimed the American Bar Association's failure to collect and disseminate data about law students with disabilities violates the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Illinois attorney Andrew Straw (left), who is disabled and practices disability law, argued that the lack of available information about the number of disabled students enrolled at each ABA-accredited law school impeded his ability to choose a school with a good track record of admitting disabled students. He told the court that he wants to enroll in a doctoral program to study disability discrimination in law school admissions.

Judge Thomas Durkin of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled on Wednesday that Straw lacked standing to sue because he had not suffered an “injury in fact,” as the law requires.