Federal Jury Decides BASD Must Pay $10,000
Lawsuit came out of years of disagreement between school district and mother of autistic, yet mathematically gifted, boy on how to best educate him.
A federal jury has decided that the Bethlehem Area School District was guilty of retaliating against a mother who filed multiple complaints about the education plans for her two sons and ordered it to pay her $10,000, according to published reports. After nearly two weeks of testimony, the jury took two-and-a-half hours to rule in favor of Diana Zhou, who filed a counter suit against the district in 2009 after the district sued her, alleging that she was deliberately driving up the district’s legal cost to get it to send her sons to Moravian Academy, according to The Morning Call. Presiding U.S. District Judge J. William Ditter must still decide on the district’s original claim against Zhou. The district filed the claim under a provision…
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ted.dobracki
9:57 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
For the record, the day after thise article was posted, a jury granted Zhou $10,000 in her countersuit against BASD. But BASD's case against Zhou is still in the judges hands, since it will be decided by the bench. A somewhat odd situation, since, in theory, the judge can rule the other way, making both sides winners! I don't think he will do that, he will either rule the same way or throw out … more ›