Medley v. Ginsberg

MEMORANDUM ORDER

COPENHAVER, District Judge.

This matter is before the court on defendants’ motion for summary judgment. Defendants’ motion challenges the court’s subject matter jurisdiction and raises the question of whether the doctrines of abstention and exhaustion of administrative remedies are applicable to this civil action.

Plaintiff Macel Medley and intervenorplaintiff Sophia Lynn Booker sue individually and on behalf of a class of mentally retarded children and young adults to redress the deprivation of federal constitutional and federal and state statutory rights alleged to have…