Leigh Law Group - Protecting Your Rights

Notable Cases

  • Leigh Law Group prevails in motion to dismiss Section 504 claims for disabled student with Down syndrome
  • Leigh Law Group recently obtained a temporary restraining order in federal court requiring a school district to continue to provide reasonable accommodations necessary for an autistic student to have an equal opportunity to run track and cross country. A permanent injunction was quickly entered thereafter. A link to the memorandum filed in support of the temporary restraining order (with the name of the student involved redacted) is below. View pdf
  • Action against Sacramento City Unified School District in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Refinery Workers File Class Action for Unpaid Wages
  • E.M. v. Pajaro Valley Unified School District — established law for the 9th Circuit related to the admission of additional evidence in an appeal of a special education due process proceeding
  • SD v. Moreland Unified School District — defeated district’s motion to dismiss Section 504 and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) claims for an autistic student
  • Lee v. Natomas Unified School District — prevailed against a motion for summary judgment in Section 504 and ADA retaliation claims against district by parent based on advocacy for child with disabilities
  • D.A. v. Meridian (Idaho) — oral argument in 9th Circuit on high-functioning autistic student’s eligibility for special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) and Idaho law
  • J.B. v. Tuolumne Cty. Superintendent of Sch., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 107152. - Obtained significant special education relief for a disabled minor after prevailing at the administrative level. An IDEA special education appeal brought to challenge the administrative hearing officer’s remedies and Ms. Leigh, Mr. Jambeck and Mr. Troutman (the Leigh Law Group team) obtained significantly more relief including an intensive private school program. Student was also awarded significant monetary relief through a Section 504 federal court claim for the Student.
  • Claimant v. San Andreas Regional Center (OAH No. 2025090204) - Leigh Law Group is proud to share a significant win for an adult client in a Lanterman Act eligibility appeal against San Andreas Regional Center (SARC). After a three-day hearing, an Administrative Law Judge with the Office of Administrative Hearings found that our client, who had been denied regional center eligibility as a teenager, has autism that substantially limits multiple major life areas, making her eligible for regional center services. The decision credited our expert's comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation, which explained how autism often presents differently in girls and women, who may mask their challenges through learned compensatory strategies. The ALJ also rejected SARC's arguments that significant functional limitations must arise before age 18 and that eligibility requires adaptive scores in the "extremely low range," finding that neither requirement appears in the Lanterman Act or its regulations. Congratulations to Senior Associate Damien B. Troutman and, most of all, to our client and her family.