This month’s update identifies two recent decisions that both illustrate students’ mental health challenges as well as related dual claims under the IDEA and Section 504. Download the update and read more.
Category: Monthly Legal Update
April 2026 Legal Update
This month’s update identifies two recent decisions that respectively illustrate the fuzzy “need prong” for special education eligibility under the IDEA and the relatively rare legal appearance of counteractions to IDEA and Section 504/ADA protection, here extending to “anti-SLAPP” laws. Download the update and read more.
March 2026 Legal Update
This month’s update identifies two recent decisions of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, under the IDEA and Section 504, respectively Download the update and read more.
February 2026 Legal Update
This month’s update identifies two recent court decisions that address the nuances in the adjudication of not only FAPE but also remedies that are potentially of high stakes for the parties. Download the update and read more.
Endrew F., a game-changer?
Linked below is a new article, published this week, finding that the judicial rulings on substantive FAPE for the eight full years after Endrew F. (2017) were 79% in favor of school districts and 21% in favor of parents. The results of this analysis further disprove the commentary characterizing Endrew F. as a game-changer in the case law… Continue reading Endrew F., a game-changer?
Perry A. Zirkel 