Judge Teate - Administrative Law Report

Court finds insufficient evidence linking student’s alleged mood disorder to violent episodes

Special Education

January 18, 2024

A high school student and her parent sought to overturn the results of a manifestation-determination review, which had concluded that the student’s incidences of physical violence against a peer and... Read More

District ordered to reimburse tuition following failure to provide student with appropriate placement

Special Education

December 8, 2023

A 12-year-old student with autism and his mother sought relief under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in the form of reimbursement for private-school tuition and travel expenses. The... Read More

Parent’s failure to provide documentation of disability leads to dismissal of IDEA manifestation complaint

Special Education

September 28, 2023

This complaint brought under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) sought to appeal a school district’s decision that a 17-year-old special-education student’s behavior of battering, sexually assaulting, and sexually... Read More

Facility disqualified from federal food program based on its earlier termination from another program

Early Care & Learning

September 25, 2023

After a facility was terminated and disqualified from participating in the federally funded Summer Food Stamp Program (SFSP), the Department of Early Care and Learning sought to terminate and disqualify... Read More

Validity of debt thrown into question in Medicaid transfer-of-assets case

Medicaid Eligibility

August 25, 2023

The central question of this case was whether a $60,000 transfer that a Nursing Home Medicaid recipient allegedly made to her daughter as payment toward a debt was exempt from... Read More

Sale of non-homeplace real property is not excluded from calculation of transfer-of-assets penalty

Medicaid Eligibility

August 4, 2023

In this case, the Court affirmed the transfer-of-assets penalty assessed against a Medicaid recipient following the sale of his non-homeplace real property at a rate below market value. The Court... Read More