1st Circuit: Advocacy Organizations Lack Standing To Sue Over Schooling

(August 15, 2019, 11:53 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — Two advocacy organizations that sought to bring a class complaint, along with a named student, on behalf of their constituents that are also students who were allegedly harmed by being placed in an allegedly inferior school due to mental health disabilities lack standing to pursue the claims in the complaint, a First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Aug. 8 (The Parent/Professional Advocacy League, et al. v. Springfield, Massachusetts, et al., Nos. 18-1778, 18-1813, 18-1867 and 18-1976, 1st Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 23709)....

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