By Michelle Tuccitto Sullo
Investigations Editor

The litigation that pushed for intellectually disabled students to spend more time with their non-disabled peers in schools statewide is over.
The plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit known as the “P.J. case” have decided against taking their case to the U.S. Supreme Court, said attorney David Shaw of Bloomfield, who represented “P.J.,” or Patrick Jordan of West Hartford, and the other plaintiffs.
“A lot of it is due to the expense,” Shaw said. “It is expensive for parents to try to fight a case like this.”
The P.J. plaintiffs had claimed the state wasn’t doing enough to meet the five goals for intellectually disabled students that both sides agreed upon when the parties reached a settlement, which was approved in 2002.
In December 2013, the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the decision of U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny.
The only remaining legal remedy for the plaintiffs would have been to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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