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D.Z. v. LAUSD: "There is Zero Evidence!" (Because I Moved To Exclude All Of It)

May 19, 2019

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." The late astronomer Carl Sagan popularized this quote when contemplating our existential role in the cosmos. Donald Rumsfeld revived it—along with his less catchy line about "unknown unknowns"—to rationalize the Iraq invasion because of suspected weapons of mass destruction.

What does any of this have to do with last week's D.Z. v. Los Angeles Unified School Dist., No. BC484110, 2019 WL 2098674 (Cal. App., 2nd Dist. May 14, 2019) opinion?

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