November 2014

We Have Moved!

      We are happy to announce that our courtrooms and the clerk’s office are now open at our new location at 225 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 400, Atlanta, GA 30303.The new building is in Peachtree Center. The Peachtree Center MARTA station is conveniently located under the building.

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Due Process Complaint dismissed for failure to include a proposed resolution.

Petitioner’s Due Process Complaint against a school system was dismissed without prejudice because Petitioner failed to adhere to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requirement that such complaints include “a proposed resolution of the problem to the extent known and available to the complaining party.”

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Applicant’s academic and career achievements support grant of appraiser classification.

Petitioner applied for appraiser classification approximately twelve years after his appraiser classification was revoked for failure to comply with a Consent Order.  The Georgia Real Estate Appraiser Board denied the application based upon the revocation as well as Petitioner’s conviction for misdemeanor theft in 1992, which he failed to disclose on prior applications.  The denial

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Inclusion of Income of student’s parents resulted in reduction, not termination, of benefits.

The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA) sought to discontinue college tuition payments that Petitioner received through the Vocational Rehabilitation program after program requirements were changed to include the income of recipients’ parents in the calculation of benefit amounts.  While GVRA was entitled to reduce tuition payments pursuant to the updated policy, inclusion of Petitioner’s parents’

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School district’s proposed extended school year education plan comported with requirements of IDEA.

Respondent school district proposed that Petitioner, a child with special needs, receive extended school year (ESY) programming at the rate of 4.5 hours per day, three days per week, and assigned a different lead teacher than was assigned to Petitioner during the regular school year. Petitioner’s mother filed a Due Process Complaint, seeking four days

School district’s proposed extended school year education plan comported with requirements of IDEA. Read More

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