Mary Amerson, as Next Friend of M.H. v. State of Iowa, Iowa Department of Human Services by Charles Palmer, Director

Mary Amerson, acting as next ftiend for her son, M.H., appeals the district court’s 1 dismissal for lack of jurisdiction of her 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. After careful consideration of the jurisdictional issue presented by this case, we affirm.

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M.H. has been the subject of a dispute between Amerson and the Des Moines Public School District since the 1989-90 school year over whether M.H. should be classified as a disabled student and whether the school district followed the proper procedures for doing so. On April 8, 1993, the juvenile court for Polk County, Iowa,…