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· 1/31/2012

G.J. Ex Rel. G.J. v. Muscogee County School District

Citations

  • 668 F.3d 1258
  • 2012 WL 263382
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 1726

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that in an IDEA case, “[a] district court is permitted to accept additional evidence, but is not required to do so.”
  • \review[ing] a district court's decision to deny a motion for additional evidence for an abuse of discretion\ in an IDEA action (citation omitted)
  • “[T]he right to a publicly funded independent 2 educational evaluation does not obtain until there is a 3 reevaluation with which the parents disagree.”
  • “The Appellants do not appeal the district court’s dismissal of the non-IDEA claims and have therefore abandoned any claim that the district court erred in doing so.”
  • “[I]f a 15 student’s parents want him to receive special education under 16 IDEA, they must allow the school itself to reevaluate the student 17 . . . .”

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Judges: Dubina, Carnes, Forrester

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