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NIEVES-MÁRQUEZ v. PUERTO RICO

No. 02-2721.

353 F.3d 108 (2003)

Joshua NIEVES-MÁRQUEZ; Jesús Nieves; Leonor Márquez, Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. The Commonwealth of PUERTO RICO; Department of Education of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, through its Secretary, Hon. César Rey Hernández; Elsie Trinidad; Edna Rosa-Colón, Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 24, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eduardo A. Vera-Ramírez, with whom Eileen Landrón-Guardiola, Anabelle Rodríguez, Secretary of Justice, and Ivonne Palerm-Cruz, Deputy Secretary, were on brief, for appellants.

Alfredo Fernández-Martínez, for appellees.

Kevin Russell, Attorney, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, with whom Jessica Dunsay Silver, Attorney, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, and R. Alexander Acosta, Assistant Attorney General, were on brief, for the United States as intervenor.

Before TORRUELLA, LYNCH, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Joshua Nieves-Márquez, a developmentally delayed and hearing-impaired teenager who attends public school in Puerto Rico, filed this federal lawsuit to compel officers of the Department of Education of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to provide him a sign language interpreter ordered for him several months earlier by a hearing officer under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA),...

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