DOE v. LAWSON

Civ. A. No. 82-3881-MA.

579 F.Supp. 1314 (1984)

Steven DOE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. John H. LAWSON, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Education, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

January 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter B. Finn, Guterman, Horvitz, Rubin & Rubin, Boston, Mass., Glenda Consla, Braintree, Mass., for plaintiffs.

Despena F. Billings, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., Donald N. Freedman, Concannon, Rosenberg & Freedman, Newton Center, Mass., for defendants.


OPINION

MAZZONE, District Judge.

In this action, brought under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (the "Act"), 20 U.S.C. § 1401, et seq., the parents of a severely handicapped child challenge a proposed change of his educational placement. That change, which the Town of Holbrook proposed and the Massachusetts Bureau of Special Education Appeals (the "Bureau") has approved, calls for the plaintiffs' son Steven to be placed...

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