Garcia v. Board of Education of Albuquerque Public Schools

How courts have described this case

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• noting that, despite finding no abuse of discretion, the Tenth Circuit may not have reached the same outcome
• explaining that “even if a student is ineligible going forward under IDEA, seeking backward-looking relief to make up for past deprivations” renders a claim live
• adding that the power to grant equitable relief “hardly suggests an absolute duty to do so under any and all circumstances.”
• holding requests for “backward-looking relief” were not moot even though a student was ineligible for prospective IDEA relief
• discussing that compensatory education may be awarded when a student has been substantively denied a FAPE
• stating that, in lawsuits seeking award of compensatory education, question of whether a school district complied with the IDEA’s procedural requirements is relevant only when the “procedural violation is alleged to have caused the substantive deprivation of a FAPE”

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