by Common Ground | Nov 23, 2024 | Courts, Current-Issue
In October, the U.S. Supreme Court began its new term. There are two significant special education cases before it that have the potential to impact the future of disability rights in public schools. A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, Independent School District No. 279...
by Common Ground | Sep 27, 2024 | Courts
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined arguments in a case (Pitta v. Medeiros) looking at whether parents have the right to video recordings of meetings with their child’s school district about special education services. The case involves the Massachusetts father of a...
by Common Ground | Sep 27, 2024 | Courts
The New Jersey State Supreme Court has ruled that students with disabilities are entitled to a free public education even after they earn a General Education Development (GED). The case involves a teen with disabilities who was denied a request to re-enroll in a...
by Common Ground | Jun 12, 2024 | Courts
The courts have said a local school district is responsible and accountable for a safe ride. In 2002, a landmark Pennsylvania case (Susavage v. Bucks County Schools, Intermediate Unit No. 22, et al.) defined the responsibility of school districts and Individualized...
by Common Ground | Apr 5, 2024 | Courts
A U.S. District Court has upheld the ruling of a New Jersey Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) that transportation to and from the corner bus stop, rather than to and from the child’s front door, did not result in denial of a free appropriate public education and did not...
by Common Ground | Apr 4, 2024 | Courts
The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is investigating an Essex County school district to determine whether they discriminated on the basis of race and disability when placing African American students into a self-contained therapeutic...
by Common Ground | Nov 28, 2023 | Courts
The mother of a Texas teen with intellectual and emotional disabilities has lost a federal lawsuit she filed following the tasing of her son. The suit charged that the school district and school resource officer (SRO) violated the teen’s civil rights under the...
by Common Ground | Aug 24, 2023 | Courts
The State of Pennsylvania is depriving students with disabilities of a year of instruction as young adults, according to a lawsuit filed this spring. Federal law entitles students with disabilities the right to FAPE until they earn a regular high school diploma or...
by Common Ground | Aug 24, 2023 | Courts
A New York school district has settled a lawsuit that claimed school staff failed to provide a student with autism their proper resources and care. The case went to trial and settled for $1.55M. The plaintiff’s family sued the North Syracuse Central School...
by Common Ground | Apr 20, 2023 | Courts, Parents, Professionals, Teachers
The U.S. Supreme Court in March ruled unanimously that a deaf student may pursue his lawsuit for monetary damages against a Michigan school district that allegedly failed for years to provide him with adequate sign language assistance. The court held that a procedural...
by Common Ground | Feb 8, 2023 | Courts
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case centering on how families and schools go about resolving disputes over services for students with disabilities. The case, Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools, raises two important questions under the Individuals with...
by Common Ground | Dec 20, 2021 | Courts
In November, a U.S. Court of Appeals rejected the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) request to reconsider FDA rules that ban the use of electric shock. In 2020, the FDA finalized regulations prohibiting the use of ‘electrical stimulation...
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