Tri-County Special Education Local Plan Area v. County of Tuolumne

Opinion

VARTABEDIAN, Acting P. J.

This is an appeal from judgment entered after the trial court sustained respondents’ demurrer to appellants’ complaint; the court denied appellants leave to amend. The case involves the duty to provide mental health services to handicapped students; the appeal involves somewhat novel questions of exhaustion of administrative remedies in the context of disputes between governmental agencies. We will conclude that both appellants and respondents have failed to exhaust administrative remedies. Accordingly, we will affirm the judgment but disagree with one of the…