Mar 9, 2021 | by Special Education Solutions
Doe v. East Lyme Board of Education, 962 F.3d 649, 120 LRP 18693 (2d Cir. June 18, 2020) is the latest installment of a long-running litigation. The current decision was the appeal of a remand to the district court. The district court was to determine remedies for a...
Mar 9, 2021 | by Special Education Solutions
Melendez v. New York City Department of Education., Nos. 19 Civ. 2928, et al., 2020 WL 4273907, 77 IDELR 8 (S.D.N.Y. July 24, 2020), is a follow-up to Ventura de Paulino v. New York City Department of Education, No. 19 Civ. 1662, 959 F.3d 519 (2d Cir. 2020). In...
Jul 14, 2020 | by Special Education Solutions
State-level review decisions in due process cases, though they lack binding force outside the cases themselves, often have instructive value for Impartial Hearing Officers. That is the case with Decision No. 190028, (SRO No. 20-080), N.Y.S. Educ. Dep’t State Review...
Jun 9, 2020 | by Special Education Solutions
The Second Circuit has finally weighed in on the litigation over whether parents whose children who suffered from brain injuries were placed by the New York City Department of Education in iHope, a private academy, may move their children to a similar new school,...
Feb 4, 2019 | by Special Education Solutions
The litigation on the West Coast concerning the Anchorage school district may contain an important lesson for impartial hearing officers. In Anchorage Sch. Dist., v. M.G., No. 3:17-cv-00157-SLG, 2018 WL 1041535, 71 IDELR 192 (D. Alaska Feb. 23, 2018), the court...
