CHRISTOPHER M. v. CORPUS CHRISTI IND. SCHOOL DIST.

No. 90-2637.

933 F.2d 1285 (1991)

CHRISTOPHER M., by Next Friend LAVETA McA., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CORPUS CHRISTI INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT and Mary Grett Memorial School, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 25, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher L. Jonas, Corpus Christi, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

Mark S. Partin, Advocacy, Inc., Austin, Tex., for amicus curiae — Advocacy, Inc.

Shirley Selz, Quentella K. Garza, L. Timothy Perrin, Gary, Thomasson, Hall & Marks, Corpus Christi, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before RUBIN, KING, and JONES, Circuit Judges:


ALVIN B. RUBIN,* Circuit Judge:

A multi-handicapped child appeals the district court's ruling that the local education authority provided him the "free appropriate public education" required under the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA).1 We find that the district court applied the correct legal standard in evaluating whether the child's education program was appropriate, the child was not presumptively...

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