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Parental victory.(Slants and Trends)
PARENTAL VICTORY. A district court ruling last month in an Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act lawsuit (County School Board of Henrico County, Va., v. R.T., No. 3:04cv 923) may be more significant for parents of special-education children than last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling (Schaffer v. Weast, No. 04-698; MHLR, November 2005, p. 105), according to an attorney involved in both cases (see story, p. 70).
For one thing, the Henrico County suit involves more money: counting tuition and attorney fees it may be about a half-million-dollar case, Bill Hurd with Troutman Sanders LLP, Richmond, Va., told MHLR.
For another, the Henrico County decision will have a broader reach. The case will hit a cord with many parents, educators and advocates, "partially because this judge spent 79 pages to write about something he obviously took a long time to think about," commented Siran Faulders, another Troutman Sanders lawyer in the case.
"This case will probably have a greater impact than Schaffer, even though it is at the district court level and not at the Supreme Court level, because of the number of ...
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