Selected Individual Cases

Enforcing a student’s due process rights

Enforcing a Student’s Due Process Rights

We worked with a middle school student and his mother to enforce the student’s educational rights after he had been suspended and recommended for expulsion.When we met our client, he […]
Appealing an unlawful expulsion

Appealing an Unlawful Expulsion

Few things are as important in school discipline as due process. We represented a student who had been expelled over 150 days after the precipitating incident, a flagrant violation of […]
Fighting an illegal school transfer

Fighting an Illegal School Transfer

We represented a high school student with special education needs to obtain appropriate placement and related support services. The school district initially sought expulsion and then residential treatment center placement, […]
Providing accountability

Providing Accountability

We drafted a uniform district complaint on behalf of a mother and her middle-school daughter who was repeatedly harassed and assaulted at school. Despite assuring the mother that the school […]
Listening to parents

Listening to Parents

During my time with the YELP clinic, I worked on two cases. The two cases involved helping mothers with 9-year-old sons in the 4th grade. Both cases were eerily similar […]
Getting to Graduation

Getting to Graduation

YELP represented a family and their high school daughter with a history of emotional disturbance, but who was adjusting well both socially and academically, had become involved in school activities […]
Securing the right school placement

Securing the Right School Placement

Our clients’ son, who is nonverbal and autistic, had been neglected by his school district for virtually his entire school career. Not only was he not provided with the kind […]