United States Eighth Circuit

Under 20 USC 1412(a)(11)(A)(i), a state agency may be liable for a local school district's failure to accommodate a student under the IDEA, but it may not require the agency to pay attorneys' fees for administrative hearings in which they did not participate.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/31/2001
• Published 07/31/2001

Judges

• MAGILL, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, Chief Judge, MAGILL, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christie J. Scase, argued, Des Moines, IA, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nancy A.S. Trotter, argued, Des Moines, IA (Sharon K. Malheiro, on the brief), for appellees.