United States Fourth Circuit

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) does not require an educational agency to include in its procedural safeguards notice, mandated by 20 U.S.C. section 1415, an explicit statement that parents in Virginia have a two-year period in which to request a due process hearing and to indicate when that period begins to run.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/29/2003
• Published 07/29/2003

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, and WILLIAMS and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED: Sona Rewari, Hunton & Williams, McLean, Virginia, for Appellant.  Melanie Diana Coates, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, McLean, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF: Thomas J. Cawley, Hunton & Williams, McLean, Virginia;  John F. Cafferky, Blankingship & Keith, Fairfax, Virginia, for Appellant.  David P. Donovan, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, McLean, Virginia, for Appellee.