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COX v. PLANNING DIST. I COMMUNITY MENTAL, ETC.

No. 81-1317.

669 F.2d 940 (1982)

Wilma Jean COX; Sheila Gilliam; Barbara S. Starnes; Nancy Barger; Jackie Davis; Rhonda Sue Cox; Appellants, v. PLANNING DISTRICT I COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL RETARDATION SERVICES BOARD, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 4, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janet H. Thurston, Abingdon, Va. (Copeland & Thurston, P.C., Abingdon, Va., on brief), for appellants.

Clifford P. Johnson, Kingsport, Tenn. (Edwin O. Norris, James W. Bradford, Jr., Hunter, Smith & Davis, Kingsport, Tenn., on brief), for appellees.

Before BUTZNER and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges, FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge.

SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:

Wilma Jean Cox, Sheila Gilliam, Barbara Starnes, Nancy Barger, Jackie Davis and Rhonda Sue Cox (appellants) appeal an order of the district court abstaining from exercising its jurisdiction and dismissing their action, brought pursuant to the provisions of 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985, against the Planning District I, Community Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services Board (Board).

While we agree that the district court properly...

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