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Delon, Floyd G. – 1979
The constitutional basis for laws concerning rights of the handicapped lies in the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection and due process clauses. Recent litigation has been based on Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, P.L. 94-142. Significant court decisions affecting education have been handed down in five areas. Regarding right to free…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Disabilities, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education