Charlie F., by His Parents and Next Friends Neil and Bonnie F. v. Board of Education of Skokie School District 68

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• explaining that an animating principle of the IDEA is that “educational professionals are supposed to have at least the first crack at formulating a plan to overcome the consequences of educational shortfalls”
• holding \that damages are not `relief that is available under' the IDEA\
• analyzing requirement of administrative exhaustion under Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
• “relief available” means “relief for the events, condition, or consequences of which the person complains,” not necessarily “the kind of relief the complaint demands”
• “Moreover, failure to exhaust administrative remedies does not deprive a court of jurisdiction; lack of exhaustion usually is waivable, as lack of jurisdiction is not.”
• court assumes, without expressly deciding, that compensatory money damages are available to disabled student who brought action pursuant to §1983 for violations of IDEA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).