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ABU-SAHYUN v. PALO ALTO UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST.

No. 87-1920.

843 F.2d 1250 (1988)

Lana ABU-SAHYUN, By and Through Feryal ABU-SAHYUN, her guardian Ad Litem; Feryal Abu-Sahyun, Guardian Ad Litem, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PALO ALTO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, Santa Clara County Office of Education; William Honig, individually and as State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California State Department of Education; California State Department of Education, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided April 8, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arlene B. Mayerson, Disability Rights Educ. & Defense, Fund, Inc., Berkeley, Cal., Jonathan C. Dickey. Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Palo Alto, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Diana K. Smith and Bridget A. Flanagan, Breon, Galagani, Godino & O'Donnell, San Rafael, Cal., Thomas M. Griffin, Girard & Griffin, Sacramento, Cal. for defendants-appellees.

Before FARRIS, BRUNETTI and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.

FARRIS, Circuit Judge:

BACKGROUND

Lana Abu-Sahyun is a severely handicapped student in the Palo Alto Unified School District. In 1985, the District decided to transfer Abu-Sahyun to a school better suited to her needs. After a hearing officer upheld the District's decision, Abu-Sahyun filed suit in the district court on June 13, 1986, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief under the Education of the Handicapped Act, 20 U.S.C. § 1401 et seq.

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