On January 25, 2013, the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law exonerating MGO client Potosi R-III School District of all charges that it discriminated against a student based on the student’s...
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...
Registration 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...
On 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...
Published 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...
Ernest Trakas, a Mickes Goldman O’Toole special education attorney, is among attorneys providing insight on how school districts school address and prevent disability harassment situations in a recent issue of the national publication Special Education Connection. ...
Published 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...
Teri Goldman, special education attorney and founding partner of Mickes Goldman O’Toole, LLC, provided expertise on the use of service animals in the recent edition of Special Education Connection, a national medium serving special education teachers, school...
Published 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...
Published 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....
