BREEDON v. MARYLAND DEP'T OF EDUC.

No. 493, September Term, 1979.

45 Md. App. 73 (1980)

411 A.2d 1073

DAVID B. BREEDON ET UX. v. MARYLAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 5, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph J. Moore, Jr., and N. Frank Wiggins, with whom were Cohn & Marks on the brief, for appellants.

Ellen M. Heller, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, and Dennis M. Sweeney, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee Maryland State Department of Education. Richard C. Daniels, with whom was Paul M. Nussbaum on the brief, for other appellee.

The cause was argued before THOMPSON, MOORE and MELVIN, JJ.


MOORE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

William B. Breedon, the subject of this appeal, is a young man with aphasia, a disorder which renders it exceedingly difficult for him to communicate with the world because language is something which he cannot readily comprehend.1 This dispute began in 1975 when the school officials of Prince George's County decided that William should be placed in a public school facility. William's parents...

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