Legal Opinion
Brown v. Griggsville Community Unit School District No. 4
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 20, 1993No. 93-2072PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
A federal statute, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1400 et seq., confers certain legal rights on the parents of disabled children of school age. When on May 29, 1991, the defendant school district notified the Browns that their disabled child, having just flunked second grade, would in the coming academic year be placed in a special class for physically disabled children in a school thirty miles from the Browns’ home, they immediately — in fact on the same day — requested a hearing before an impartial hearing officer appointed by the school…
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