This month’s alert provides the following additions to your legal currency: The Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which encompasses CT, NY, and VT and which is the most active federal appeals court under the IDEA, recently issued a significant decision that largely pierces or erodes the methodology barrier. The Supreme Court has held oral arguments… Continue reading February 2017 Legal Update
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December 2016 Legal Update
As the latest additions to your legal currency, this month's alert provides the principal findings of an empirical analysis of the case law concerning the procedural dimension of FAPE, as reported in the following new journal article: Perry A. Zirkel & Allyse Hetrick, (2016). Which procedural parts of the IEP process are most judicially vulnerable? Exceptional Children, 83… Continue reading December 2016 Legal Update
November 2016 Legal Update
November 2016 - As the latest additions to your legal currency, this month's alert identifies these two aspects of the IDEA’s central obligation of “free appropriate public education” (FAPE) that have emerged beyond the procedural and substantive dimensions of FAPE demarcated in Board of Education v. Rowley (1982). The first of these two relatively recent judicially recognized forms of… Continue reading November 2016 Legal Update
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