Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2010-06-22 20:10:14+00
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FILED
                            NOT FOR PUBLICATION                             JUN 22 2010

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CHERYL BLANCHARD; et al.,                        No. 09-35171

              Plaintiffs - Appellants,           D.C. No. 3:06-cv-05166-JKA

  v.
                                                 MEMORANDUM *
MORTON SCHOOL DISTRICT; et al.,

              Defendants - Appellees.

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Western District of Washington
                   J. Kelley Arnold, Magistrate Judge, Presiding **

                             Submitted May 25, 2010 ***

Before:       CANBY, THOMAS, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

       The Blanchards appeal pro se from the district court’s order affirming an

administrative decision under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

          *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
       **
             Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c)(1), the parties agreed to proceed
before a magistrate judge.
      ***
              The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

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(“IDEA”), and granting summary judgment on their claims under the Americans

with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and the Rehabilitation Act (“RA”). We have

jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review for clear error the district court’s

findings of fact and we review de novo its legal conclusions and summary

judgment. Van Duyn ex rel. Van Duyn v. Baker Sch. Dist. 5J, 502 F.3d 811, 818

(9th Cir. 2007) (findings of fact and legal conclusions); Payne v. Peninsula Sch.

Dist., 598 F.3d 1123, 1126 (9th Cir. 2010) (summary judgment). We affirm.

      Based on the evidence in the record, the district court properly concluded

that the school district provided the Blanchards’ son with a free appropriate public

education under the IDEA. See Van Duyn, 502 F.3d at 823-25 (no violation of the

IDEA where school district materially implemented the individualized educational

program and plaintiff failed to proffer evidence to the contrary).

      The district court properly granted summary judgment for defendants on the

Blanchards’ ADA and RA claims because they failed to raise a triable issue as to

whether or not the defendants were deliberately indifferent to their disabled son.

See Duvall v. County of Kitsap, 260 F.3d 1124, 1139 (9th Cir. 2001) (claims for

monetary relief under the ADA and the RA require plaintiff to establish intentional

discrimination based on deliberate indifference).

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      This court previously affirmed the dismissal of the Blanchards’ claims under

42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985, and we decline to reconsider those claims here. See

Leslie Salt Co. v. United States, 55 F.3d 1388, 1392 (9th Cir. 1995) (“Under law of

the case doctrine, [] one panel of an appellate court will not reconsider matters

resolved in a prior appeal to another panel in the same case.”).

      AFFIRMED.

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