DUBOIS v. CONNECTICUT STATE BD. OF EDUC.

No. 228, Docket 83-7452.

727 F.2d 44 (1984)

Lorraine DUBOIS, individually and as mother and next friend of her minor child, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CONNECTICUT STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, Town of Weston Board of Education, Joyce C. Driskell, Richard Winokur, and Joy K. Peshkin, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 25, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest C. La Follette, Bridgeport, Conn., for plaintiff-appellant.

John R. Whelan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn. (Joseph I. Lieberman, Atty. Gen. of the State of Conn., Bernard F. McGovern, Jr., Robert W. Garvey, Asst. Attys. Gen., Hartford, Conn.), for defendants-appellees Connecticut State Bd. of Educ. and Joyce C. Driskell.

Robert J. Murphy, Hartford, Conn., submitted for defendants-appellees Town of Weston Bd. of Educ., Richard Winokur, and Joy Peshkin.

Before LUMBARD, OAKES and KEARSE, Circuit Judges.


KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Lorraine Dubois appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Warren W. Eginton, Judge, dismissing her complaint for damages and declaratory relief for alleged violations of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq. (1982) (the "Act" or "EHA"), because Dubois had failed to exhaust her administrative remedies as required by the Act. On appeal...

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