Board of Education v. Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities

Summary

The court affirmed dismissal of the board’s administrative appeal. It held that the commission could identify an ADA violation as the factual basis for a state-law discrimination violation, that the claimant’s discrimination complaint did not seek relief for denial of a free appropriate public education and therefore did not require exhaustion, and that the board’s unpreserved challenge to treating a public school as a place of public accommodation was not jurisdictional and was unreviewable. The court also concluded that any error concerning the legal basis for the damages award was harmless.