Supreme Court rules for girl with epilepsy in opinion that could affect education access lawsuits

Did SCOTUS make it easier to sue schools for disability discrimination?

Special education legal experts say they don't expect a significant uptick in lawsuits in the long term from the Supreme Court’s A.J.T. v. Osseo ruling.

This Supreme Court Decision Could Change the Lives of Millions of Students With Disabilities

The decision has received relatively little attention compared with other blockbusters from this term—but it stands to have a significant impact.

US Supreme Court lowers legal barrier for students suing over disability discrimination

The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday that public-school students with disabilities may pursue discrimination lawsuits under the same standard of proof that applies when people sue other institutions for discrimination based on disability claims, sweeping aside a higher legal standard used by some lower courts. Writing for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts rejected the heightened test as textually unsupported. He stated: “Togeth…

Supreme Court rules, again, that different standards for discrimination plaintiffs are unconstitutional

The Court ruled unanimously in favor of a disabled teenage girl and her family, who faced a higher bar to prove that her school discriminated against her.

Unanimous court rebuffs higher standard for discrimination claims by children with disabilities

In A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, Independent School District No. 279, the Supreme Court considered the obligation of schools to refrain from discriminating on the basis of a disability. Specifically, the justices considered whether students face a higher bar in challenging such activity than disabled individuals do in other contexts. Thursday’s opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by all the justices, firmly rejected the higher standard…

Supreme Court sides with disabled Maple Grove teen, opening door to more school district lawsuits

The family argued that the Osseo school district backed out of giving their daughter a later school day to accommodate her seizures.