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121112P.pdf   07/24/2013  J.B.  v.  Avilla R-XIII School District
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-1112
                          and No:  12-1113
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Joplin   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, with Melloy and Smith, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - School law. A claim for reimbursement for private educational 
   services, to which a student is entitled under the Individuals with 
   Disabilities Education Act and which should have been borne by a school 
   district, is a form of relief under the IDEA and must be exhausted through 
   the administrative remedies provided in the IDEA before suit can be filed; 
   none of the exceptions to this exhaustion requirement - futility, 
   inability of the administrative process to provide adequate relief or the 
   establishment of an agency policy or practice of general applicability 
   that is contrary to law - applied here to excuse plaintiffs' failure to 
   exhaust.