Carter v. Slots

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “the failure to conduct an adequate functional behavioral assessment is a procedural violation that can have substantive effects”
• explaining that an “evaluation does not always require a school to conduct additional testing”
• explaining that, in IDEA appeals from a Hearing Officer’s decision, a district court is “in exactly the same position” as the Court of Appeals when considering “a motion for summary judgment on the administrative record”
• noting that the “reviewing court must answer the predicate question whether—combined with all other relevant data—any assessment parents may have sought and funded on their own provided a materially accurate and adequate account of the student's circumstances.”
• noting the lack of clarity on “what ground DCPS may have reasonably concluded that the IEP was tailored to [the student’s] needs”
• addressing DCPS's obligation to identify students who qualify for services under the IDEA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).