Holding: An Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit seeking compensatory damages for the denial of a free and appropriate education may proceed without exhausting the administrative processes of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act because the remedy sought is not one IDEA provides.
Judgment: Reversed and remanded, 9-0, in an opinion by Justice Gorsuch on March 21, 2023.
Link to the Opinion of the Court.
This was the only Supreme Court Opinion today.
The whole thing amounts to 10 pdf pages, 2 for the lead and summary, 8 for the actual Opinion.
I imagine the school district will likely quickly settle with the victorious Petitioner.
pulls at the heart strings, but I’m not sure how I feel about this. Seems to me having your own personal interpreter is a bit more than “reasonable” accommodation. Not going to judge it, have to mull it over a bit.
That is my impression also. I couldn’t imaging the cost of every school having to have a sign language person. More then one if more then one student.
A sign-language interpreter is absolutely a “reasonable accommodation” for a deaf student - there’s plenty of case law on that already - but that’s not the question the Court was answering.
The ruling was a lot more procedural and technical - whether the student’s failure to exhaust his administrative remedies precludes his federal suit for damages (for the failure to provide an effective RA).
The court held that he was not precluded from filing for damages.
The issue here is that the school district didn’t act in a half assed way.
They acted in a full assed way.
Such as providing a sign language interpreter who was literally teaching him/herself sign language, then attempting to interpret in one particular case.
No it’s not at all reasonable. text to speech can be done by a computer for a fraction of the cost. Guess this is a product of the Justices being old farts.
Yes - auto-generated (live) closed captions is awful.
Although some times it works out hilariously, like when the closed captioning of a House committee broadcast renamed Pat Cippiloni as “Patsy Baloney”
No you don’t. You get it wrong every day. Your are amazingly consistent. Link to one post saying the Government is useless in everything it does. Should be easy for you to find.
