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PEOPLE v. CONAGHAN

No. 4-96-0738

684 N.E.2d 1067 (1997)

291 Ill. App.3d 753

226 Ill.Dec. 71

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois ex rel. The DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION SERVICES and The Illinois School for the Deaf, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. John F. CONAGHAN, The Illinois State Board of Education, and Pekin Community High School District 303, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District.

Decided September 11, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Barbara A. Preiner, Solicitor General, Susan Frederick Rhodes, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, for Department of Rehabilitation Services, Illinois School for the Deaf, People, ex rel.

Janet M. Cartwright, Equip for Equality, Inc. Rock Island, for John Conaghan.

Michael J. Tibbs, Miller, Hall & Triggs, Peoria, for Pekin Community High School District 303.

Justice KNECHT delivered the opinion of the court:

John Conaghan (John) was born in September 1977. He has multiple disabilities, including a severe hearing impairment, a behavior disorder, and he is developmentally disabled. For most of his life, John has been educated in his home school district and in various private facilities. In September 1994, John and Margy Conaghan, John's parents, applied to enroll John at the Illinois School for the Deaf (ISD). ISD denied...

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