Thomas Ciampa v. Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Thomas Ciampa appeals the dismissal of his claims for injunctive, declaratory, and monetary relief against the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (“MRC” or “Commission”) and its present commissioner, Elmer C. Bartels. Ciampa alleged that defendants violated his rights under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and under the nondiscrimination provision of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (RHA), 29 U.S.C. § 794. 1

The district court found that plaintiff, an emotionally and educationally handicapped thirty-four year old man, had been…