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CEFALU v. EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL BD.

No. 95-31045.

103 F.3d 393 (1997)

Charles Tony CEFALU, Jr., Behalf of his minor son rpi Charles Tony CEFALU, III, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD; State of Louisiana, Through the Department of Education, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 3, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tammy Lynn Pruet, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Robert L. Hammonds, Hammonds & Sills, Baton Rouge, LA, for East Baton Rouge Parish School Bd, Defendant-Appellant.

Gwendolyn H. Gregory, Alexandria, VA, for National School Bd. Association (NSBA), amicus curiae.

Scott S. Partridge, Frilot, Partridge, Kohnke & Clements, New Orleans, LA, Douglas Richard Cyrex, Monique C. Duplessis, Gonzales, LA, for Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf (A.G. Bell), National Ass'n of the Deaf (NAD), Nat. Cued Speech Ass'n (NCSA), and La. Ass'n of the Deaf (LAD), amici curiae.

Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, and JOLLY and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

The single question presented by this appeal is whether, under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ("IDEA"), 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq., a school board is legally obligated to provide a sign language interpreter to a disabled student voluntarily enrolled in private school. The district court found that the IDEA required the school board to provide the on-site interpreter...

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