Washington, D.C – On Monday, the Supreme Court’s disability rights case got a lot more heated than usual. People were accused of lying, and one side’s position was called a possible “five-alarm fire.”

A teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy filed the appeal. Her family says that some courts have made it too hard to sue public schools that don’t make sure students learn what they need to.

Lower courts had stopped her family’s discrimination case, even though they had found that her Minnesota school hadn’t done enough to help her. They then went to the Supreme Court.

Roman Martinez, their lawyer, said that the district’s stance had changed to a possible “five-alarm fire” for the disability-rights group.

The district didn’t support the lower court decisions that set a different legal standard for suing schools. Instead, they said that all claims about making accommodations for disabled people should be held to the same higher standard.

Lisa Blatt, the lawyer for the school district, said that their arguments had not changed. “They are giving us more words to say.” “We never told you to have two regimes,” she said.

Justice Neil Gorsuch asked her to drop the claim that the other side had lied, but she stuck to her point that disability rights claims should be held to a higher legal standard.

The justices didn’t seem to buy that argument. Justice Amy Coney Barrett called it a “sea change” and asked if any lower courts had taken a similar stance.

By the end of June, the case should have a ruling.