Legal Opinion
Frith v. Galeton Area School District
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided September 20, 1995No. 3:CV-92-1877PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
McCLURE, District Judge.
BACKGROUND:
Plaintiff Aaron Frith alleges in this civil rights action 1 that his constitutional rights were violated by defendants’ failure to place him in an appropriate educational program to address problems stemming, directly or indirectly, from his medical condition. Plaintiff was diagnosed in the eighth grade as suffering from Tourette’s syndrome, a disorder of the nervous system characterized by tics: rapid, involuntary, sudden movements, sounds and other behaviors beyond the control of the individual. This behavior sometimes takes the form of…
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