BROWN v. GRIGGSVILLE COM. UNIT SCHOOL DIST. NO. 4

No. 93-2072.

12 F.3d 681 (1993)

Earl D. BROWN and Laurie A. Brown, as parents of B. Brown, a minor, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GRIGGSVILLE COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 4; Delbert Camp, Superintendent; Kim Curry, Member of the Board of Education; et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 20, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine M. Black, Carbondale, IL (argued), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Larry D. Kuster (argued), Richard Freeman, Rammelkamp, Bradney, Dahman, Kuster, Keaton & Fritsche, Jacksonville, IL, for defendants-appellees.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, MANION, Circuit Judge, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.


POSNER, Chief Judge.

A federal statute, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1400 et seq., confers certain legal rights on the parents of disabled children of school age. When on May 29, 1991, the defendant school district notified the Browns that their disabled child, having just flunked second grade, would in the coming academic year be placed in a special class for physically disabled children in a school thirty miles from...

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