Ellenberg Ex Rel. S.E. v. New Mexico Military Institute

How courts have described this case

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• holding that district court erred in deciding merits of claim because it lacked jurisdiction due to parents’ failure to exhaust the administrative process
• noting that our review in the IDEA context “is necessarily fact-intensive, requiring careful analysis of the particular child’s needs and abilities”
• explaining that an IEP is typically “[p]repared at meetings between a representative of the local school district, the child’s teacher, the parents or guardians, and, whenever appropriate, the disabled child”
• noting that “[r]eview of IEPs must occur at least annually”
• exhaustion excused where plaintiffs challenged school’s discriminatory admissions practice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).