MATTER OF POLKABLA v. COMM'N FOR THE BLIND & VISUALLY HANDICAPPED OF THE NEW YORK STATE DEP'T OF SOC SERVS.


183 A.D.2d 575 (1992)

In the Matter of Kathleen Polkabla, Petitioner, v. Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped of the New York State Department of Social Services et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

May 19, 1992


Petitioner, Kathleen Polkabla, who has been blind from birth, challenges a determination of the Commission which, after a hearing on April 27, 1990, denied her request for sponsorship under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 USC § 701 ["the Act"]), to attend undergraduate college and law school. The primary issue in this appeal is whether the Act mandates that respondents provide petitioner with vocational rehabilitation services designed to enable her to...

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