Read PACE v. BOGALUSA CITY SCH. BD., 01-31026

ADA Title II, Rehabilitation Act, and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) claims against state defendants are barred by state sovereign immunity. Plaintiff was not denied a "free appropriate public education" under the IDEA. (Revised opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/24/2003
• Published 04/09/2003

Judges

• W. EUGENE DAVIS and WIENER, Circuit Judges:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS, JONES, SMITH, WIENER, BARKSDALE, GARZA, DeMOSS, BENAVIDES, STEWART, DENNIS and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Anne Arata Spell, Spell & Spell, Franklinton, LA, Thomas C. Goldstein (argued), Goldstein & Howe, Washington, DC, for Pace., John W. Waters, Jr. (argued), Ernest L. O'Bannon, Christopher M. G'Sell, Bienvenu, Foster, Ryan & O'Bannon, New Orleans, LA, for Bogalusa City School Bd., Sarah Elaine Harrington, Jessica Dunsay Silver, Tovah R. Calderon, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div.-App. Section, Washington, DC, for Intervenor., Amy Warr, Austin, TX, for State of Texas, Amicus Curiae., Ellen Bentley Hahn, Advocacy Ctr., Lafayette, LA, Brian Dean East, Advocacy Inc., Austin, TX, for Nat. Ass'n of Protection & Advocacy Systems, Advocacy Ctr., Advocacy Inc., Am. Ass'n of People with Disabilities, Bazelon Ctr. for Mental Health Law and Southern Disability Law Ctr., Amici Curiae., Claudia Center, Lewis Loy Bossing, The Legal Aid Soc., Employment Law Ctr., San Francisco, CA, for Nat. Ass'n of Protection & Advocacy Systems, Advocacy Ctr., Advocacy Inc., Am. Ass'n of People with Disabilities, Bazelon Ctr. for Mental Health Law, Southern Disability Law Ctr., Western Law Ctr. for Disability Rights, Disability Rights Educ. and Defense Fund and Legal Aid Soc. Employment Law Ctr., Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles K. Reasonover (argued), Lamothe & Hamilton, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.