Chief Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois appointed Amy Eskin of Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP as State Court Liaison Counsel for California and a member of the 15 member Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee supervising  the In re Paraquat Products Liability Litigation. MDL No. 3004.

On July 8, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, holding that Connecticut violated the Individuals With Disabilities Act (“IDEA”) by terminating special education services for students prior to their 22nd birthday while offering public education to non-disabled adults. They also held that Connecticut’s violation entitled class members who are no longer receiving special education to compensatory education to remedy the past unlawful termination of their services.