BURR BY BURR v. AMBACH

No. 86 Civ. 7164 (RLC).

683 F.Supp. 46 (1988)

Clifford BURR, by his parents and next friends, Kenneth and Betty BURR, Plaintiffs, v. Gordon AMBACH, as Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

March 9, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, New York City (Herbert Semmel, Ellen M. Saideman, of counsel), Legal Services of Central New York, Inc., Syracuse, N.Y. (Lewis Golinker, of counsel), BLS Legal Services Corp., Federal Litigation Program, Brooklyn, N.Y., for plaintiffs.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., of State of N.Y., New York City (Martha O. Shoemaker, of counsel), for defendant.


OPINION

ROBERT L. CARTER, District Judge:

In administrative proceedings before a hearing officer appointed by the New York State Commissioner of Education, plaintiff Clifford Burr challenged the recommendation of the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind ("the Institute") that he not be appointed to its program for the handicapped. The hearing officer directed plaintiff's admission to the Institute's program, and awarded plaintiff a year of free...

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