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A.W. v. Jersey City Pub. Sch.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law, Health Law
In a suit brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 by a dyslexic former student raising Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and...

Moron-Barrada v. Dep't of Educ.

Civil Procedure, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit against the Puerto Rico Department of Education for discrimination and retaliation under Title VII based on its failure to hire plaintiff...

Conroy v. Regents of the Univ. of Cal.

Contracts, Education Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In case arising from decedent's decision to donate his body to the medical school at U.C. Irvine, judgment for defendant is affirmed over plaintiff...

Smith v. Novato Unified Sch. Dist.

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
In case involving student free speech rights in high school, judgment for defendants concluding that a student opinion editorial entitled...

Winkelman v. Parma City Sch. Dist.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Education Law, Health Law
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) grants parents independent, enforceable rights, which are not limited to procedural and...

US v. Mount Sinai Med. Ctr.

Education Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Tax Law
The services performed by medical residents are not categorically ineligible for the student exemption from Federal Insurance Contributions Act...

Bd. of Educ. of Township High Sch. Dist No. 211 v. Ross

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law, Health Law
In a suit under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act by the parents of a child with Rett syndrome against a school district and a state...

Ross v. Bd. of Educ. of Township High Sch. Dist. 211

Civil Rights, Contracts, Education Law, Government Law, Health Law, Judgement Enforcement
In a suit by a student with Rett syndrome against a school district and its director of special education alleging various violations of her rights,...

Hood v. Encinitas Union Sch. Dist.

Administrative Law, Education Law, Health Law
In an action brought by parents and their child claiming a school district violated the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) by refusing...

Bay Shore Union Free Sch. Dist. v. Kain

Civil Procedure, Education Law
Judgment confirming the decision of the state review officer that plaintiff school district provide defendant's seven-year-old son who has ADHD a...