Board of Education v. Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities

Summary

The court affirmed the judgment upholding a human rights referee's determination that the commission could identify an ADA violation as the factual predicate for a state-law discrimination violation. It held that the claimant was not required to exhaust IDEA-related administrative remedies because the complaint sought relief for disability discrimination rather than denial of a free appropriate public education. The court also held that the challenge to treating a public school as a place of public accommodation concerned statutory sufficiency, not subject matter jurisdiction, and therefore was not reviewable because it was unpreserved.