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The U.S. Supreme Court last week fielded a 27-year-old deaf Michigan man’s claim that he should be allowed to sue Sturgis Public Schools for compensatory damages for failing to provide him an adequate education for more than a decade even though it later paid to provide him additional instruction as an adult.
According to the Detroit Free Press, Miguel Luna Perez, who immigrated to Michigan from Mexico with his family, received good grades and was listed as an honor roll student despite being unable to read or write and having not learned basic facts.
On Wednesday, the court heard Perez’s claim that even though he and his family reached a legal settlement for Sturgis to pay for him to attend the Michigan School for the Deaf following what would have been his high school graduation, that shouldn’t stop him from filing for financial damages under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
No date has been set for oral arguments before the Supreme Court.
