California Court of Appeal

In a case involving a highly gifted child who began attending college at 7, passed the high school exit exam at 9, and started attending UCLA when he was 13, dismissal of action seeking a writ of mandate compelling defendant to pay for a college education for plaintiff minor, is affirmed as the IDEA does not guarantee appropriate free college education, plaintiff is not a child with exceptional needs under California's special education law, plaintiff does not have a right to a free college education under the California constitutional free school guarantee, or under any applicable state or federal law for that matter.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/07/2006
• Published 11/07/2006

Judges

• CANTIL-SAKAUYE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• The Pro-Family Law Center and Richard D. Ackerman, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Allan J. Keown, for Defendants and Respondents.