Hinson Ex Rel. N.H. v. Merritt Educational Center

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “some courts have only considered the first and third factors of the Walker test”
• noting that no answer had been filed to one of the plaintiff’s claim, “notwithstanding the fact that Defendants did not move to dismiss that claim and that their time to answer has long since passed,” and ordering defendants to file an answer
• dismissing a Fifth Amendment claim where “Plaintiffs d[id] not identify . . . the liberty or property interest at stake” or “the manner in which [the plaintiff] was deprived of such an 20 interest”
• dismissing Section 1983 claim asserted as part of IDEA suit since plaintiffs “do not allege any exceptional circumstances or demonstrate why the normal remedies offered under the IDEA are inadequate to compensate [the minor child] for the harm he allegedly suffered.”
• “a number of courts addressing this very issue have concluded that DCPS is not a suable entity under the D.C. Code”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).