Abstract
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (the EHA) imposes significant responsibilities on local and state educational authorities to ensure that handicapped children are receiving free and appropriate public education. To protect this substantive right to education, Congress mandated extensive procedural protections, including the right to file a judicial action following exhaustion of administrative remedies. The EHA did not provide for the recovery of attorneys' fees, however, until the statute was recently amended. ...
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1988
Recommended Citation
Thomas F. Guernsey, The School Pays the Piper, but How Much? Attorneys Fees in Special Education Cases after the Handicapped Children’s Protection Act of 1986, 23 Wake Forest L. Rev. 237 (1988).
