all - Opinion Summaries

HOLZ v. NENANA CITY PUB. SCHL. DIST.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
In an employment discrimination action, summary judgment to defendant is reversed where the school district is not immune under the Eleventh Amendment...

BERGER v. MEDINA CITY SCH. DIST.

Civil Rights, Education Law
In an action seeking reimbursement for the tuition plaintiffs paid to have their hearing-impaired son attend private school pursuant to the...

IN RE GERHARDT

Bankruptcy Law, Education Law
In a Chapter 7 case, the district court's denial of discharge of student loans is affirmed where the debtor failed to meet the second Brunner prong...

REINHOLDSON v. STATE OF MINNESOTA

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Education Law, Judgement Enforcement
In regard to a severance order issued in connection with an action under IDEA, the court abused its discretion to the extent that the clerk's judgment...

STEVEN F. v. ANAHEIM UNION HIGH SCH. DIST.

Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
An award of emotional distress damages to parents, arising from their daughter's sexual relationship with a teacher, is reversed where they were...

MARONI v. PEMI-BAKER REG'L SCH DIST

Civil Rights, Education Law, Family Law, Juvenile Law
The district court erred by dismissing claims brought under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) because parents brought the case...

GRIM v. RHINEBECK CENT. SCH. DIST.

Civil Rights, Education Law
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,...

KIRKLAND v. GREENE COUNTY BD. OF EDUC.

Constitutional Law, Education Law
In a suit brought by the mother of an alleged victim of severe corporal punishment, defendant principal is not entitled to qualified immunity where...

REXROAD v. CITY OF SPRINGFIELD

Education Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
City defendants were not entitled to immunity under Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act section 3-106, in a negligence...

HERTS v. SMITH

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a school employee's claim that her contract was not renewed because of her testimony at a desegregation hearing, denial of summary judgment to...