United States Fifth Circuit

In the context of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), where a school district articulates reasonable grounds for its necessity to conduct a medical reevaluation of a student, a lack of parental consent will not bar it from doing so.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/26/2006
• Published 06/27/2006

Judges

• PRADO, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and WIENER and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Martin J. Cirkiel, Kelly L. Hinton, Cirkiel & Associates, Round Rock, TX, Caren Morgan Cambre (argued), Lynn Luker & Associates, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey L. Rogers (argued), Paul A. Lamp, Amy Cumings Tucker, Feldman & Rogers, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.