Legal Opinion
Christopher M., by Next Friend Laveta McA v. Corpus Christi Independent School District and Mary Grett Memorial School
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 25, 1991No. 90-2637PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, * Circuit Judge:
A multi-handicapped child appeals the district court’s ruling that the local education authority provided him the “free appropriate public education” required under the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA). 1 We find that the district court applied the correct legal standard in evaluating whether the child’s education program was appropriate, the child was not presumptively entitled to receive a full school day of programming, and the court was not required to give greater weight to the testimony of the child’s physician than to the testimony of the child’s…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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- Roland M. And Miriam M. v. The Concord School CommitteeCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1990
- Gregory K., a Student of the Longview School District v. Longview School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1987
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