VOORHEES, JESSICA W. v. TALERICO, GARY I.

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• concluding that the child was a prevailing party because the hearing officer had ordered the district to modify the child’s IEP
• holding that a four-month delay was unreasonable because the school district “failed to take any appreciable steps toward complying with its Child Find obligation.”
• concluding that a child’s “academic decline, hospitalization, and incidents of theft should have led [the school district] to suspect her need for special education services” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• ruling that a four-month delay was 11 Case: 20-20339 Document: 00515904405 Page: 12 Date Filed: 06/17/2021 No. 20-20339 unreasonable where the district “failed to take any appreciable steps toward complying with its Child Find obligations”
• affirming the district court’s finding of a child find violation even on the assumption that the district court overstated the length of the school district’s delay by two months
• finding sufficient notice based on “academic decline, hospitalization, and incidents of theft”

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