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Unit 8 - Litigation, Due Process and Attorney Fees

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Then please print the Printable Handout and have it available as you view the Video using the two links below.
Unit 8 Printable Handout	Unit 8 Video (1 Hour 32 Minutes)
The lecture will refer to or be embellished by the Supplemental Material located below.

• Compliance Complaints
  • CDE Brochure on Compliance Complaints
  • CDE Compliance Complaint Form
  • CDE Compliance Complaint Helpful Hints
  • 1/25/2000 NCD Report "Back to School on Civil Rights" a two decade 387 page study showing essential non compliance with IDEA in all 50 states.
  • 1/25/2000 NCD Report "Back to School on Civil Rights" a two decade 387 page study PDF Version
  • Wrighteslaw Discussion of this Report
  • U.S. Department of Education February 1999 Letter to California Dept of Ed.Depicting status of California IDEA Compliance in 1999
  • U.S. Department of Education February 2007 Letter to California Dept of Ed. Depicting status of California IDEA Compliance in 2007.
  • U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights complaint process.
• Due Process Hearings
  • OAH Mediation Only Request Form
  • Mediation and Due Process Request Form
  • OAH Subpoenas
  • OAH Administrative Procedures Act
  • Office of Administrative Hearings, SpEd Unit
  • Old SEHO Decisions between 1989 - 1995.
• Attorney Fees
  • Lucht v. Molalla River School District, 57 F.Supp. 2d 1060 (D. Ore. 1999) Attorney Fees for Prevailing in Compliance Complaint.
  • J.L. et.al. v Mercer Island SD, Fee Motion Good Attorney Fee Motion with fee case citations.
  • Buckhannon Board and Care Home v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources the "Catalyst" theory that paid attorney fees for settlements was rejected.