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St. Charles firm Federer & Federer announced Sean P. Haley joined the firm as an associate attorney. Haley is a trial attorney concentrating his practice primarily in business and civil litigation. Legal Services of Eastern Missouri hired Lucas Caldwell-McMillan to oversee the organization's new St. Louis Children's Health Advocacy Project as a staff attorney. The organization also hired Jeanne Serra to be the group's advocate. The children's health project was established through a three-year grant that Legal Services received from the Missouri Foundation for Health. It is a medical-legal partnership with SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers Inc. and the Saint Louis University School of Law Legal Clinic. P...
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The public school divisions are committed to providing a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) to all children found eligible for special education services from ages two through twenty-one (inclusive). Each public school division also has the responsibility to identify, through the Child Find process, children residing in this jurisdiction, who qualify for special education and related services. According to the Virginia Department of Education, students may be found eligible for services in compliance with the regulations who meet the criteria for the following disabilities: Autism - means a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three that adversely affects a child's educational perfo...
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Competent, credible evidence supports juvenile court's award of permanent care and custody of minor child to Franklin County Children Services and denial of a paternal aunt's motion for legal custody.
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The American Civil Liberties Union wants Fayette County's Children and Youth Services to pay $445,061 for attorneys' fees and costs for legal services it provided to a man who sued the agency for barring him from seeing his children. A federal judge earlier this month ordered the Fayette agency to pay $105,000 to the estate of a Smithfield man who sued the agency for barring him from seeing his children.
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New rules designed to reduce special education costs have led to an increase in legal challenges by families seeking services for their children, a lawyer told lawmakers Monday. Nicole Bradick told the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee that her firm, Murray, Plumb & Murray in Portland, was involved in fewer than five challenges last year. Since the rules took effect last month, the firm has filed 13 legal challenges against the state since the last week in December.
