· 12/10/1979
Federal Case
Citations
- 612 F.2d 644
- 1979 U.S. App. LEXIS 9823
How courts have described this case
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- mentally retarded children who were thought to be hepatitis carriers could not be excluded from classrooms when health hazard was only a remote possibility
- discriminatory exclusion of handicapped children from regular public school classes unlawful in the absence of “at least some substantial showing” by the school authorities that the exclusion is necessary
- “Clearly, deferral to a state agency’s factfinding is inappropriate once that agency is the defendant in a discrimination suit.”
- “must make at least some substantial showing in court that its plan is justified”
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