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· 8/7/2008

Couture Ex Rel. M.C. v. Board of Education of the Albuquerque Public Schools

Citations

  • 535 F.3d 1243
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 16648
  • 2008 WL 3092955

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that Goss “did not . . . delineate the precise contours of those protections”
  • granting teachers summary judgment on special education student’s Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process claim concerning the teacher’s use of IEP “timeout” room because the claim is specifically cognizable under the Fourth Amendment
  • reversing district court’s denial of qualified immunity as to individual defendants
  • same for using timeout rooms that “were expressly prescribed by [a child’s] IEP as a mechanism to teach him behavioral control”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: McConnell, Seymour, Gorsuch

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