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· 6/15/2005

David and Bonnie Cavanaugh, for the Minor Child, Kyle Cavanaugh v. Cardinal Local School District

Citations

  • 409 F.3d 753
  • 2005 WL 1253919

How courts have described this case

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  • holding the IDEA provides no right for parents to proceed pro se on behalf of their minor children
  • “we hold that the right of disabled child to a FAPE belongs to the child alone, and is not a right shared jointly 24 with his parents”
  • “That a non-lawyer may not represent another person in court is a venerable common law rule based on the strong state interest in regulating the practice of law.”

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Judges: Suhrheinrich, Batchelder, Gibson

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