PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Forest Grove School District may have to pay for private school for a student whose family claimed he was entitled to special education benefits.

The family of the teenager sent him off to a private school in Prineville when he was having trouble in public school in Forest Grove -- including marijuana addiction.

He was never enrolled in any special education program in Forest Grove, but his family argued that federal law for students with learning disabilities required the school district to pay the private school costs.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday in a 2-1 decision that a lower court must reconsider the case and possibly pay some of the cost.