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Pets for Vets

By | April 01, 2017
Like most dog lovers, Jan Potts understands how owning a canine can improve a person's life.
13 minute read

Daily Business Review

Financial Literacy: It Needs More Than a Month

U.S. Bankrupty Judge Laurel Isikoff and her clerk,Carly Krupnick, write in recognition of Financial Literacy Month, but they say more time is needed than that to educate everyone from students to seniors.
10 minute read

The Recorder

Avila v. Spokane School District 81

By | March 30, 2017
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Will US Supreme Court 'Fry' Decision 'Lead Courts Astray'?

If Mary had a little lamb that followed her to school, what about a goldendoodle service dog named Wonder for a disabled kindergartner? In its unanimous decision on Feb. 22, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed and remanded the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit's decision that had dismissed a federal discrimination action against the school for barring the door to Wonder the dog in Fry v. Napoleon Community School District, 580 U.S. (2017) (No. 15-497, Kagan, J., slip op. at 20).
10 minute read

The American Lawyer

Law School Student Debt the Betsy DeVos Way

Don't rely on the Trump administration to help solve the growing student debt crisis, says columnist Steven J. Harper.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Panel Orders Release of Special State School Aid

An appeals court has vacated a stay that had allowed New York state to continue withholding $69 million in aid to 19 troubled schools that are seeking to exit state designation as "persistently struggling" institutions.
3 minute read

The Recorder

M.C. v. Antelope Valley Union High School District

By | March 28, 2017
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Appeals Court Rules School District Can't Challenge State on Disabled Students' Schooling

The state's highest court affirmed that a public school district did not have legal authority to challenge the state's finding that the district's method of resolving disputes over disabled students' schooling was proper.
8 minute read

Texas Lawyer

By Defusing Emotion, Dallas Lawyer Wins Take-Nothing Verdict in School Sexual Assault Case

Tom Brandt, who has developed a reputation for defending school districts against heartbreaking allegations, discusses his latest win in a case involving a 14-year-old student who reported she'd been raped.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

'Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools'—High Court and the Wonder Blunder

On Feb. 22, the Supreme Court decided Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools, a case that considered the interplay between the exhaustion requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Title II of the American with Disabilities Act, and Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act.
16 minute read

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