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CURRENT LITIGATION
October 11, 2017 – Parents of children with disabilities, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, the Center for Public Representation, the Georgia Advocacy Office, The Arc, DLA Piper LLP, and the Goodmark Law Firm filed a class action lawsuit in federal court alleging that the State of Georgia has discriminated against thousands of public school students with disabilities by providing them with a separate and unequal education via the State’s Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Supports Program (GNETS). The complaint, filed in United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, alleges that the State, in denying GNETS students the opportunity to be educated with their non-disabled peers in neighborhood schools violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Read this fact sheet and press release to learn more about the lawsuit.
U.S. District Court for the Nothern District of Georgia
October 11, 2017
Ongoing
The Georgia Advocacy Office; The Arc of the United States; R.F., by and through his mother, B.F.; C.S., by and through his mother, M.S.; V.H., on behalf of himself and others similarly situated
State of Georgia; Nathan Deal, in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Georgia; Georgia Board of Education; Georgia Department of Education; Richard Woods, in his official capacity as State School Superintendent; Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities; Judy Fitzgerald, in her official capacity as Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities; Department of Community Health; and Frank Berry, in his official capacity as Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Community Health
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