Zhang v. Guo

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that it is appropriate to consider an IHO’s decision “where the SRO rejects a more thorough and carefully considered decision of an IHO”
• stating that a court’s review of administrative findings in the IDEA context must “be colored by an acute awareness of institutional competence and role”
• observing that 6 burden of demonstrating administrative error falls on plaintiffs
• deferring to IHO's decision where the SRO failed to distinguish, explain, or otherwise analyze certain conflicting evidence in his analysis
• comparing a permissible “decision to rely heavily” on available.public placements to an impermissible policy that “the district would not consider [the proposed] placement in an appropriate case”
• explaining, by way of illustration, that “determinations regarding the substantive adequacy of an IEP should be afforded more weight than determinations concerning whether the IEP was developed according to the proper procedures”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).