Legal Opinion
Pollack v. Regional School Unit 75
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 26, 2018No. 17-1700PPublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
*79 B.P. is a 19-year-old public school student in Regional School Unit 75 (the "district") in Topsham, Maine. He has been diagnosed with several disabilities, including autism, cognitive impairment, and a variant of Landau-Kleffner Syndrome. B.P. is nonverbal and unable to communicate with his parents about his experiences at school. His parents want him to carry an audio recording device at school to record pretty much everything said in his presence. The school district's refusal to permit the device prompted B.P.'s parents ("plaintiffs") to file this lawsuit on his…
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