Legal Opinion
C.G. Ex Rel. A.S. v. Five Town Community School District
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 18, 2008No. 07-1708PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to examine the rights of a disabled child under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. §§ 1400-1415. The principal issue, scantily addressed in the case law, involves how judicial review should proceed when the last individualized education program (IEP) proposed by the school system is incomplete.
Here, the district court found that the IEP’s incompleteness was due to the parents’ obstruction of the developmental process. It proceeded to consider extrinsic evidence and concluded that, had the parents permitted the…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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