Registration for the 2012 School Law Seminars is now open. The sessions will be held: Columbia, MO – Holiday Inn Executive Center – July 29, 2012 St. Louis, MO – Maryville University – Auditorium – August 2, 2012 Cape Girardeau, MO – Southeast Missouri State University – Glenn Auditorium – August 3, 2012 Springfield, MO [...]
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2012 School Law Seminars
Sunday, April 1st, 20122011 School Law Seminars Set
Thursday, April 21st, 2011Registration for the 2011 School Law Seminars is now open. The sessions will be held: Columbia, MO – Holiday Inn Executive Center – July 31, 2011 St. Louis, MO – Maryville University – Auditorium – August 4, 2011 Cape Girardeau, MO – Southeast Missouri State University – Glenn Auditorium – August 5, 2011 Springfield, MO [...]
Mickes Goldman O’Toole Secures Spectacular Special Education Victory for School District Client
Monday, July 26th, 2010On July 2nd, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued its decision in Lathrop R-II Sch. Dist. v. Gray affirming the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri order granting summary judgment in favor of the Lathrop R-II School District. The three judge appellate panel was unanimous in [...]
Arming Your District Against OCR – By: Alefia E. Mithaiwala
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Published by MARE, April 2010 Proactive Measures Your District Can Take Now On February 1, 2010, Mickes Goldman O’Toole celebrated its two year anniversary. And in the past two years alone, the firm’s special education department has handled approximately sixty OCR complaints against districts across the state of Missouri, each alleging discrimination on the basis [...]
Arming Your District Against OCR: Proactive Measures Your District Can Take Now – By: Alefia E. Mithaiwala & Thomas A. Mickes
Monday, March 1st, 2010Published by MOASBO, March/April 2010 On February 1, 2010, Mickes Goldman O’Toole celebrated its two year anniversary. And in the past two years alone, our special education department has handled approximately sixty OCR complaints against districts across the state of Missouri, each alleging discrimination on the basis of disability. In addition, our office continues to [...]
Recent Eighth Circuit Case Law: A Lesson in What Not to Do in Disciplining Disabled Students – By: Alefia Mithaiwala
Friday, January 1st, 2010Published by MARE, January 2010 Consider this: a high school principal suspends a disabled student on September 8 for fighting and bringing a pocket knife to school. He tells the student and his parent that the suspension is “until a hearing before the school board can be arranged.” Problem number 1. Then, because the student [...]
Clear and Present Danger – By: Ernest G. Trakas
Monday, November 30th, 2009Published by MOASBO, September/November 2009 The Special Education Student Substantially Likely to Cause Injury Johnny B. Goode, we’ll just call him J.G., is on his way to the Principal’s office. He is being escorted by the school’ Resource Officer and a male teacher. Each man has hold of one of the 6th grader’s arms as [...]
Seclusion and Restraint In Missouri Schools – By: Alefia E. Mithaiwala
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Published by MARE, June 2009 “Missouri School Children Placed In Padded Seclusion Rooms” “Parents of Disabled Students Say Metro District is Mistreating Their Kids” These are just two of the many headlines involving the use of seclusion and/or restraint in schools that have peppered newspapers across Missouri and the country. The issue has received so [...]