The Supreme Court on April 28 seemed sympathetic to an epileptic student’s family that is suing a Minnesota school district, alleging that the school illegally denied special accommodation.
The oral argument in A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools became heated when the attorney for the district accused the other lawyers at the hearing of “lying” about the position she was arguing, an accusation she subsequently withdrew.
The U.S. solicitor general’s office argued in favor of the family’s position.
The student, known as A.J.T. and by her first name, Ava, is suing through her parents, who are identified in court papers as A.T. and G.T. Ava suffers from Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, a rare kind of epilepsy, according to the family’s petition, filed in September 2024….