J.L. v. Mercer Island School District

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the Ninth Circuit uses “educational benefit,” “some educational benefit,” or “meaningful” educational benefit and that meaningful access must confer “some educational benefit”
• recognizing Rowley “educational benefit” standard 2 remains proper despite post-Rowley changes to education law
• finding no predetermination where district changed aspects of the program based on parent and expert recommendations, even though district held pre-meeting
• “[C]ourts 10 are ill-equipped to second-guess reasonable choices that school districts have made among 11 appropriate instructional methods.”
• “Congress did not . . . indicate that it sought to supersede Rowley.”
• “We give particular deference to ‘thorough and careful’ administrative findings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).