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171915P.pdf 07/24/2018 Ron Parrish v. Bentonville School District
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 17-1915
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Fayetteville
[PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Loken and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The record
supports the Administrative Hearing Officer's and the District Court's
determinations that the district provided Children A and L with a FAPE,
and the court did not err in rejecting the parents' IDEA, Section 1983,
Section 504 and ADA claims; the district court's strategies, while they
might have been imperfect, complied with the IDEA, included detailed
strategies to address the children's behavioral problems and contained
evidence that the children were progressing academically; the claims of
Children S and G were not administratively exhausted and the district
court properly granted the district's motion for summary judgment on their
claims for failure to exhaust; the district court's decision to exclude
plaintiffs' expert's report as a sanction for their failure to disclose
the report on a timely basis was not an abuse of the court's discretion;
in any event, the report was conclusory and non-specific and would not
have materially impacted the court's analysis.