in complying with their constitutional obligations to provide public education for handicapped children.” Smith v. Robinson, 468 U.S. 992, 1009, 104 S.Ct. 3457, 82 L.Ed.2d 746 (1984). Even after this early federal legislation, states continued to violate the constitutional rights of disabled students. See, e.g., Hairston v. Drosick, 423 F.Supp. 180, 184 (S.D.W.Va.1976) (public school violated Due Process Clause by excluding a student with spina bifida from regular public classroom without procedural safeguards); Cuyahoga County Ass’n for Retarded Children & Adults v. Essex, 411 F.Supp. 46, 58-59 (N.D.Ohio 1976) (finding Ohio regulations governing the placement and dismissal of mentally retarded children violated due process); Panitch v. Wisconsin, 444 F.Supp. 320, 322 (E.D.Wis.1977) (<HOLDING>); N.Y. State Ass’n for Retarded Children, Inc.
holding that the state law violated equal protection principles holding that district of columbia violated due process by denying handicapped students a publicly supported education and suspending or expelling such children from regular schooling or special instruction without a hearing holding that segregation in public education is a denial of equal protection of the laws holding complaint that sentence violated equal protection was waived because of failure to object at trial holding that wisconsin violated equal protection rights of handicapped children by denying them an education at public expense