Diane B. Weissburg v. Los Angeles Unified School District, et al.

This is a matter of first impression in the Federal and California Court systems.

1. Are Individual Educational Placement (“IEP”) meetings Official Proceedings?

2. Do parents have the right to record IEP meetings, and use the content of those recorded IEP meetings in subsequent court actions?

3. Is an IEP meeting an “issue of public interest.”

4. Whether a parent, guardian, or local educational agency has a right under federal law to audio record IEP meetings and use the content of those recordings, without fear of retribution? Petitioner Diane B. Weissburg (“Petitioner”) requests review of the decision of the United States Court of Appeal For The Ninth Circuit, App., infra, 1a-4a, which affirmed the trial court’s denying of their Anti-SLAPP motion against the Counter-Claim filed by Los Angeles Unified School District. (“LAUSD”), App., infra, 5a-16a. In 2018, Mother Christine Truong (“Mother” or “Truong”) and her counsel Diane B. Weissburg (“Weissburg”) attended a series of IEP assessment and placement meetings with Los Angeles Unified School District (“LAUSD” or “Respondent”) regarding an IEP program for Truong’s son D.N. Truong recorded the meetings as allowed by California Education Code § 56341.1. Following one of the meetings, Truong was told by