Legal Opinion

Karl Pihl v. Massachusetts Department of Education

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided November 16, 1993No. 93-1414PublishedCited by 156 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs Karl and Diane Pihl filed this lawsuit in 1987, alleging that defendants Massachusetts Department of Education, Lowell School Committee, City of Lowell and Lowell Special Education Administrator George Tsandikos denied educational services due Karl as a disabled child. They now appeal from a district court order dismissing their complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted, presumably because moot, since the challenged educational plan had expired four years earlier, and Karl had since passed the age of entitlement for…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Board of Education of the Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley Ex Rel. RowleySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  2. Honig v. DoeSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
  3. School Committee of the Town of Burlington v. Department of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  4. Smith v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  5. Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1993

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3Cited by156 opinions

  1. Reid Ex Rel. Reid v. District of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2005
  2. Kate Frazier v. Fairhaven School CommitteeCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2002
  3. Murphy v. Timberlane Regional School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1994
  4. Miller v. CBC Companies, Inc.District Court, D. New Hampshire · 1995
  5. C.G. Ex Rel. A.S. v. Five Town Community School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2008

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