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The Faculty Lounge
Goffman Dissertation Update
Faculty Lounge readers may recall my protracted efforts to obtain a copy of Alice Goffman’s dissertation. Following my repeated inquiries, it was finally deposited in Princeton’s Mudd Manuscript Library on…
Education Law Prof Blog
Justice Dept. Scolds Georgia For Segregating Students With Disabilities, Some Placed in Dilapidated Former Jim Crow School Buildings
The Justice Department has warned Georgia in a July 15th letter that the state's practices of segregating students with behavior-related disabilities violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. The DOJ's letter…
Education Law Prof Blog
D.C. Circuit Holds That District Must Pay For Residential School Placement After Failing To Provide An Alternative
Leggett v. Dist. of Columbia, No. 14-7021 (D.C. Cir. July 10, 2015) - Short take: when a school district drags its feet in providing a free appropriate education required under the Individuals…
Other
Bloomberg BNA Interviews Seyfarth’s ADA Title III Team Leader About Website Accessibility
By Katie Martin
Our ADA Title III Team leader, Minh Vu, recently spoke to Bloomberg BNA about what businesses can do to make their websites accessible to people with disabilities, and the Justice…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Lawmakers Reintroduce Special Needs Trust Fairness Act
A bi-partisan team of congress members have re-introduced the Special Needs Trust Fairness Act of 2015. The bill would make the process of creating a first-party special needs trust easier…
California Employment Law
Happy 25th Birthday Americans With Disabilities Act. Now Go Find a Job.
July 26, 2015 will mark 25 years since George H.W. Bush signed the Americans With Disabilities Act. Has the ADA behaved like many 25 year olds by moving to Brooklyn and refusing…
Education Law Prof Blog
Legal News on IDEA, School Prayer, and Taxpayer Funding for School Board’s Political Activities
Second Circuit Holds That School District Must Provide Full Value of Compensatory Services Under IDEA, Not Just Lesser Value of What Parents Could AffordIn Doe v. E. Lyme Bd. of…
Education Law Prof Blog
Court Finds That D.C. District Neglected “Child Find” Duty for Preschoolers
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia again found last week that the D.C. school district failed to comply with their “Child Find” duty to locate disabled students…
School Law
SDE Weighs in on Parents’ Right to Independent Educational Evaluations
By Peter J. Maher, Julie C. Fay
The Connecticut State Department of Education (“SDE”) recently issued a guidance memorandum providing its interpretation of when a parent is entitled to a publicly funded independent educational evaluation (“IEE”) under…
PropertyProf Blog
City Living as a Quadriplegic
Peter Apps explains how breaking his neck changed his view of urban form:If I've learned one thing in the nine years since I broke my neck, it's that the world…