DOE EX REL. HIS PARENTS v. East Greenwich School Dept.

OPINION

Chief Justice WILLIAMS,

for the Court.

This appeal concerns the requirement that a litigant who asserts on behalf of a child that he or she is being denied his or her guarantees under federal law to a free and appropriate public education exhaust the administrative process before bringing a civil suit to enforce these guarantees. More specifically, the plaintiff, John Doe 1 (plaintiff), appeals from a judgment dismissing his civil suit brought in Superior Court against the defendants, East Greenwich School Department (school department), Rhode Island Department of Elementary and…