BROOKHART v. ILLINOIS STATE BD. OF ED.

No. 81-3089.

534 F.Supp. 725 (1982)

Deborah BROOKHART, Jenny Buckley, a minor, by Dolores Buckley, her mother and next friend, James Granderson, Jeffrey McNabb, Judy Sleeth, Ellen Ioerger, Kenneth Gallagher, Douglas Westhoff, Michael Livingston, Cindy Phillips, Michael Mudd, a minor, by Sandra Mudd, his mother and next friend, Donald Shea, and Scott Ridge, Plaintiffs, v. ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, Donald Gill, State Superintendent of Education, Board of Education, Peoria School District # 150, Peoria County, Illinois, Harry Whitaker, individually and as Superintendent of Peoria School District # 150, Defendants.

United States District Court, C. D. Illinois.

March 23, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary E. Kerr and Marilyn F. Longwell, Linda Ganski, Guardianship & Advocacy Commission, Springfield, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Robert S. Bell, Jr. and Jane Lynk, Asst. Attys. Gen., Springfield, Ill., for Illinois State Board of Education and Donald Gill.

Julian E. Cannell, Peoria, Ill., for Board of Education, Peoria School District # 150, and Harry Whitaker.


DECISION AND ORDER

ROBERT D. MORGAN, Chief Judge.

This case is proceeding1 as a judicial review under § 1415(e)(2) of Title 20, United States Code, of an Administrative Order2 issued May 8, 1981, over the signature of Donald G. Gill, State Superintendent of Education of Illinois. It involves the propriety of denial of high school diplomas to certain plaintiffs, all of whom were exceptional students...

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