Cuyahoga County Ass'n for Retarded Children & Adults v. Essex

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

BEN C. GREEN, District Judge.

This action presents a wide-ranging attack upon the Ohio system of education and/or training for mentally handicapped school-age children. Plaintiffs have asserted constitutional challenges to the statutes and regulations pertinent thereto on two grounds. It is alleged that the retarded are denied equal protection in that they are not afforded educational or training opportunity on the same basis as that accorded all other children of school age. It is further alleged that the retarded are denied due process in the classification procedures…