In my last post, I talked about how some laws have a claim exhaustion requirement. Claim exhaustion refers to the idea that a suing party must try all of the available remedies for one law before they sue under another law. In the IDEA’s case, that means parents have to take their case all the way to an independent hearing. That hearing’s outcome could put an end to the litigation — before other laws like the ADA could be invoked.
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