Plaintiff Terianne Lowe filed suit against her former employer, Independent School District No. 1 of Logan County, Oklahoma (“the District”), alleging that it failed to reasonably accommodate her post-polio condition, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101-1221...   MORE>>

Depending on whose version of this case you hear, defendant Judy Green is either a dedicated public schoolteacher who spent the years before her conviction working to help impoverished schools across the country, or the mastermind of a massive fraudulent scheme that bilked the federal government out...   MORE>>

From 2002 to 2007, Jon White was an elementary school teacher in two central Illinois school districts, first the McLean County School District and then the Urbana School District. During that time, he sexually abused several female students in both districts. In this appeal, we address the liabilit...   MORE>>

Stephanie Lessard, a New Hampshire resident with multiple disabilities, is entitled to receive a free appropriate public education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ("IDEA"), 20 U.S.C. §§ 1400, 1412(a)(1), (5), et seq. (2004). She is speech-language impaired, mentally retarded...   MORE>>

Joseph and Adria Weissburg (“Weissburgs”) brought an action for attorneys’ fees against Lancaster School District (“school district”) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (“IDEA”), 20 U.S.C. §1415(i)(3)(B), on behalf of their child, Edward Weissburg (“Edward”). Ed...   MORE>>

This appeal stems from Plaintiffs’ allegation that Defendant Mercer Island School District (“District”) failed to provide K.L. with a free appropriate public education as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1400-1491. The administrative law judge (“ALJ...   MORE>>

This case presents an equal protection challenge to a Utah statute that allows cities, through an election open only to residents in the proposed new district, to detach from an existing school district.

The Appellants in this case were excluded from voting in an election that reduced the size of...   MORE>>

C.N., by and through her mother, J.N., appeals the dismissal of various federal claims against Willmar Public Schools, Independent School District No. 347 (the District), several officials affiliated with the District and her former special education teacher Lisa Van Der Heiden. We affirm. When this...   MORE>>

From 1978 until July 1995, Robert Gilbert worked as a social studies teacher at Palatine High School, which was run by the Board of Education of Township High School District 211 (the “District”). While Gilbert was widely regarded for his skills in the classroom, he continually sparred with coll...   MORE>>

Relying on the fee-shifting provision contained in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the District of Columbia seeks fees from a lawyer who, on behalf of a special needs student, initiated administrative proceedings that were eventually dismissed as moot. The district court deni...   MORE>>