Legal Opinion
Riley v. Ambach
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 19, 1981No. 465, Docket 80-7600PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiffs, and appellees in this action, are eighteen learning disabled children and their parents. The defendants, and appellants, are the State of New York and the State of New York’s Commissioner of Education, Gordon M. Ambach. The State defendants took actions: (1) defining as handicapped only those learning disabled children who exhibit a discrepancy of 50% or more between expected achievement and actual achievement, and (2) withdrawing a procedure allowing local Committees on the Handicapped (“COHs”) to assign learning disabled children to residential schools…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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3Cited by79 opinions
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