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093221P.pdf   11/12/2010  Jonathan Doe  v.  Todd County School District
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-3221
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Pierre   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Bright and Gruender, Circuit
   Judges]
   Civil case - Civil Rights. Plaintiffs' consent to a placement placed
   control over the situation with the student's Individual Educational
   Program team, rather than the school board, and because the school board
   lacked authority to overrule the team's educational decisions, the board's
   refusal to convene a hearing did not violate plaintiffs' federal
   constitutional due process rights; the IEP team's educational decisions
   must be reviewed in accordance with the procedural safeguards of the
   IDEA; however, plaintiffs failed to invoke their rights under the statute,
   and the district court erred in granting judgment for the plaintiffs on their
   due process claims.