WRIGHTSLAW: Supreme Court to Hear Parental Rights Case; Taking Stock & New Years Resolutions; Advice on Accessible Books

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Issue: 372; ISSN: 1538-3202

Subscribers on January 2, 2007: 45,694

Our mission is to help you gain the knowledge and skills you need to

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confusing, changing world of special education.

In This Issue:

1. Note to Subscribers about New Format for the Special Ed Advocate

2. Supreme Court to Hear Oral Argument in Parental Rights Case on February

27

3. Taking Stock & New Year's Resolutions

4. Success Stories!

5. Your Advice About Accessible Books & Screen Reader Programs Needed

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1. From Pete and Pam: New Format for the Special Ed Advocate

Because many subscribers are not receiving the newsletter on a consistent

basis, we

decided to use a different strategy.

We will publish The Special Ed Advocate as a text newsletter with a link to

the " printer

friendly " html version, in hopes that all subscribers will receive it.

Our goal is to resolve the delivery problems while continuing to publish an

informative

newsletter about special education law and advocacy issues. You can help by

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2. U. S. Supreme Court Will Hear Oral Argument in Parental Rights Case on

February 27

The U. S. Supreme Court agreed to resolve the question of whether non-lawyer

parents

may represent their children in federal court. Oral argument is scheduled

for February 27,

2007.

This case generated intense interest after the Cleveland Bar Association

launched an

investigation of these and other parents for the Unauthorized Practice of

Law after

the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued an adverse decision

in their case.

We built the Winkelman v. Parma page at

www.wrightslaw.com/news/07/winkelman.parma.htm

that includes:

* Question presented

* Background information about Winkelman and his case

* Links to pleadings

* Links to amicus briefs including the Brief of the United States as Amicus

Curiae

* Links to cases about non-lawyer parental representation

* Articles about the case, including the Cleveland Bar Association

investigation