Anthony M Cook v. State of Indiana

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the court must “ensure that relief set forth in the administrative award was ‘appropriate’”
• holding that when “a school district deprives a disabled child of [a] free appropriate public education ... a court fashioning ‘appropriate’ relief, as the statute allows, may order compensatory education”
• holding that when “a school district deprives a disabled child of [a] free appropriate public education…a court fashioning ‘appropriate’ relief, as the statute allows, may order compensatory education”
• holding that compensatory education must be “an informed and reasonable exercise of discretion regarding what services [the student] needs to elevate him to the position he would have occupied absent the school district’s failures”
• holding hearing officer’s decision was entitled to no deference because it centered on interpretation of statutory language
• explaining that the court is “obligated by IDEA to ensure that relief set forth in the administrative award was ‘appropriate’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).