The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by a California School district which asserted that it could be exposed to claims of educational malpractice for failing to identify a student with a suspected disability. The case, Compton Unified School District v. Addison, involved a claim that the local school district violated the IDEA’s Child Find provision when it falied to identify a student with a suspected disability. The parents requested a Due Process hearing and won at the administrative level. The lower federal courts affirmed that administrative decision and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the school district’s appeal. Attorney Berliner handled a similar matter in a State Department of Education Due Process hearing. The case was entitled Student v. Regional No. 9 Board of Education, Case No. 07-094 (8/23/07); and the Hearing Offficer found that the local school district had sufficient information to complete a determination of the student’s eligibility and it violated the Child Find provisions and state refulations when it failed to do so. That decision was subsequently affirmed by the federal court in Connecticut. Regional School District No. 9 v. Mr. and Mrs. M., 53 IDELR 8, 2009 WL 2514064 (D. Conn. 2009)
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