Category: Civil Rights
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Ninth Circuit: Newsom ban on school during COVID violated the rights of rich people but not poor people
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…
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Great News for Families seeking Regional Center services!
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…