California OAH special education order · September 16, 2025
Order Accepting Hearing Exhibit
OAH Case No. 2025050715 · ALJ Chris Butchko
OAH admitted Los Angeles Unified's 2025-2026 school calendar as Student's Exhibit 22 after hearing, because the record was still open, the motion was unopposed, and good cause existed.
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Summary
After the hearing ended, Student asked OAH to add Los Angeles Unified's 2025-2026 academic calendar to the evidence. The prehearing conference order had required Los Angeles to include a calendar for each school year at issue, but only the 2024-2025 calendar was moved into evidence. Neither party had noticed the omission during the hearing. Because the record stays open until final briefs are due on September 17, 2025, Los Angeles did not oppose, and there was good cause, OAH granted the motion and will receive the calendar as Student's Exhibit 22.
Why it matters
A party can still ask to add an exhibit it overlooked at hearing, as long as the record has not closed. This works best when the other side does not object and the exhibit was one the prehearing order already required.
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Full text of the order
Published text of the OAH order. Page headers and numbers from the original PDF have been dropped.
BEFORE THE
OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN THE MATTER OF:
PARENTS ON BEHALF OF STUDENT
v.
LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
OAH CASE NUMBER 2025050715
ORDER ACCEPTING HEARING EXHIBIT
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025
On September 4, 2025, Student filed a motion to have the Los Angeles Unified School District academic calendar for the 2025-2026 school year received into evidence, noting that the August 18, 2025, Order Following Prehearing Conference for Hearing by Videoconference directed Los Angeles to include a copy of the school calendar for each school year in question with its exhibits.
At hearing, Los Angeles moved an academic calendar for the 2024-2025 school year into evidence, but omitted to present and move a calendar for the 2025-2026 school year. Student asserts this was an inadvertent mistake that neither party caught during the hearing. Los Angeles was notified by Student that he would be making this motion and has not filed in opposition to it.
The record in this matter has not been closed and will not be closed until the parties complete final briefing on the matter on September 17, 2025. As the motion to add the exhibit is not opposed, the record is still open, and there exists good cause to receive the exhibit, the request is granted.
ORDER
The record in this matter now includes as an exhibit a copy of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s academic calendar for the 2025-2026 school year, as attached to Student’s motion. Student shall upload a copy of the exhibit to Case Center and mark it as Student’s Exhibit 22. OAH will then receive the exhibit into evidence as Student’s Exhibit 22.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Chris Butchko Administrative Law Judge Office of Administrative Hearings