Hornstine v. Township of Moorestown

>Hornstine v. Township of Moorestown

In a case that received widespread media attention, a federal court in New Jersey issued an injunction prohibiting a school district from implementing a new policy allowing for multiple valedictorians at high school graduation ceremonies. The policy had been proposed following complaints that the likely valedictorian for the class of 2003, a student with a disability who had the highest weighted grade point average in her class, had had an unfair advantage due to the disability-related accommodations she had received during her high school years. The student prevailed on her claim that applying this policy for the 2003 graduation ceremony would discriminate against her on the basis of disability, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (