The following content section contains 3 specific case highlights.

J.B. v. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND.

In this administrative complaint filed with the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education, a college student alleges that a university failed to provide a reasonable accommodation when a professor unreasonably refused to reschedule certain examinations.
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J.H. v. ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

A family with an autistic child filed an administrative complaint with the Office of Administrative Hearings against a county school board for failing to provide special education services.  The parties resolved this matter through mediation in a confidential settlement.
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BARNETT v. FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD.

In this case of first impression a high school student with hearing impairments challenged a county school board’s refusal to permit him to attend his community school instead of attending a special school for deaf children. The trial and appellate courts ruled in favor of the county.  The case, brought in 1989, was an early example of using the Rehabilitation Act's integration clause to argue for inclusion in educational settings.  The author of the theory was Ms. Pepper's colleague and lead trial counsel, Timothy Cook, executive director of the National Disability Action Center in Washington, D.C., who died from cancer soon after the decision in this case at the age of 37.  While our client did not succeed in this case, many years later the United States Supreme Court embraced the integration mandate in Olmstead v. L.C.  It is thus a tribute to Mr. Cook that his ideas have outlived him and are now the law of the land.