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WARD v. HEKMAN

No. G80-338 CA1.

497 F.Supp. 454 (1980)

Robin and Karen WARD, Plaintiffs, v. Randall HEKMAN, Probate Judge, et al, Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Michigan, S. D.

September 15, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin H. Logan, II, Grand Rapids, Mich., for plaintiffs.

Ronald W. Carlson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lansing, Mich., Dennis C. Kolenda, Phillip J. Nelson, Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendants.

OPINION

BENJAMIN F. GIBSON, District Judge.

This is an action challenging the constitutionality of an adoption decision, and claiming that the procedures generally followed by the defendants in placing children for foster care and adoption amount to a pattern and practice of racial discrimination. This opinion addresses motions by some of the defendants that the case be dismissed as to them.

Two of the defendants have moved to dismiss the action...

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