DISCLAIMER: that title is mostly tongue-in-cheek trolling. What the Ninth Circuit held on July 23, in Branch et. al v Newsom et. al, was that Newsom’s order closing schools because of COVID burdened private school parents’ fundamental rights to decide how they educate their children. It did not, however, burden the rights of any public school children, because the government does not…
This week, the Court of Appeal reversed the Ventura Superior Court’s decision in Tri-Counties Ass’n v. Ventura County Public Guardian which reversed the ALJ’s finding that A.V. met the statutory criteria for developmental disability: he had a qualifying condition of autism, i.e., ASD; his ASD was substantially disabling; and the condition originated before age 18 and is therefore met the qualifying conditions…