United States Second Circuit

Where plaintiff's right to a free appropriate public education was not in any way endangered by delays in the state's administrative review process, the district court erred by not according appropriate deference to administrative determinations under the IDEA when it concluded that IEPs were substantively inadequate under the IDEA.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/13/2003
• Decided 10/08/2003
• Published 10/08/2003

Judges

• JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge., Before:  LEVAL and CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and AMON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mark C. Rushfield (Michael K. Lambert, on the brief), Shaw & Perelson, LLP, Poughkeepsie, NY, for Defendant-Appellant., RosaLee Charpentier, Family Advocates, Inc., Kingston, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee.