JOSE P. v. AMBACH

Nos. 89, 312, 313, 314 and 471, Dockets 80-7053, 81-7165, 81-7263, 80-7283 and 81-7205.

669 F.2d 865 (1982)

JOSE P., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Gordon M. AMBACH, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, Frank J. Macchiarola, et al., Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants. UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF N.Y.C., INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, Gordon M. Ambach, et al., Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees. DYRCIA S., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., Defendants-Appellees, New York State Education Department, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 21, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Pawson, Albany, N. Y. (Robert D. Stone, Albany, N. Y., Atty. for Commissioner of Education, Jean M. Coon, Albany, N.Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellants-cross-appellees.

Robert Bergen, New York City (Allen G. Schwartz, Corp. Counsel, Ronald E. Sternberg, Gary R. Tarnoff, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees-cross-appellants.

John C. Gray, Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y. (Harold Adler, Brooklyn Legal Services Corp., Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees Jose P. et al.

Michael A. Rebell, New York City (Arthur R. Block, Helene M. Freeman, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees United Cerebral Palsy of N.Y.C., Inc., et al.

Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, OAKES, Circuit Judge, and CONNER, District Judge.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

Each of the three cases consolidated on appeal was a class action on behalf of handicapped children challenging New York state and city education authorities' failure to provide the appropriate public education required by the Education of All Handicapped Children Act (EHA), 20 U.S.C. §§ 1401-1461, section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794, New York Education Law §§ 4401-4409, the regulations promulgated...

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