Check out Draper v. Atlanta Independent School System from Judge Pryor (no liberal judicial activist) pretty harshly condemning the school system for its failure to comply with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The opinion is actually quite low on overt rhetoric, but the discussion of the facts and the application of law to facts speaks volumes.

The case was litigated, by the way, by Marcy Tiffany and Steve Wyner. Marcy, whom I know because she's the wife of my former boss Judge Kozinski (and who's a fellow UCLA Law grad!), has had quite a remarkable career, including having been Acting General Counsel of the FTC, Antitrust Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Trustee for the Central District of California (the office that deals with bankruptcy matters), and General Counsel of Hughes Electronics. Having more or less retired from all that, she then came back to doing IDEA law.