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· 12/10/1979

Federal Case

Citations

  • 612 F.2d 644
  • 1979 U.S. App. LEXIS 9823

How courts have described this case

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

  • 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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