Jun 9, 2005
Tueth Keeney attorneys Robert Jackstadt and Merry Rhoades recently obtained a defendants”™ verdict on a retaliation lawsuit based on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The federal jury found in favor of the Edwardsville School District on Thursday June 9, 2005 in the Federal Courthouse in East St. Louis. In the lawsuit, a substitute teacher alleged that the School District retaliated against her when she requested special education services for her son. After hearing three days of testimony and a
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Jan 26, 2005
Tueth Keeney attorneys including Tom Tueth successfully defended a boundary dispute lawsuit which had been filed against both the Northwest R-I School District and the Rockwood R-VI School District. Plaintiffs alleged that they lived on a parcel of land that had never been incorporated or annexed into an existing school district. In their lawsuit, Plaintiffs requested that the Court declare their property to be in the Rockwood School District. However, both Districts agreed that
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Jan 26, 2005
Tueth Keeney attorneys Robert Jackstadt and John Reynolds recently obtained the dismissal of a lawsuit filed against a Kansas City area school district. The Plaintiff in the lawsuit, a construction company, alleged that the school district had failed to fully pay Plaintiff for work performed. The lawsuit had been pending against the District for several years, and Plaintiff had been through two attorneys. After the second attorney for Plaintiff withdrew from the case, Plaintiff
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Jan 18, 2005
Tueth Keeney shareholders Robert Jackstadt and Merry Rhoades recently successfully defended an Illinois school district in a civil lawsuit and multiple special education due process requests, pending in Madison County, Illinois. Firm attorneys Rob Jackstadt and Merry Rhoades handled the case on behalf of the school district. Plaintiff had originally challenged the school district’s ability to disclose a student’s education records to its legal counsel, asserting violations of state and federal law. Tueth Keeney obtained the dismissal of those counts.
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Merry Rhoades
Robert L. Jackstadt
John M. Reynolds