Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

Thu 10 SepCASE

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M. V. ALEDO

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The lack of parental consent means that AISD’s obligation to provide Annie with a free and appropriate public education (“FAPE”) was never triggered. And because the parents’ IDEA claim fails, their duplicative ADA claim must also fail. We therefore AFFIRM.

5th Cir. · affirmed

Whether parents may consent to only some assessments in a district's proposed initial IDEA evaluation and still trigger its FAPE duty.

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10961726/m-v-aledo/