MARCUS X BY JESSICA X v. ADAMS

No. Civ. 3-92-0820.

856 F.Supp. 395 (1994)

MARCUS X, by his mother and next friend, JESSICA X, Plaintiffs, v. Betty ADAMS, Individually and in her capacity as Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Youth Development, Defendant.

United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee.

February 22, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean H. Rivkin, Director, University of Tennessee Legal Clinic, Brenda McGee, Knoxville, TN, for plaintiffs.

Christine A. Modisher, Jane W. Young, Asst. Atty. Gen., Eleanor O. Kerr, State of Tenn., Office of the Atty. Gen., Nashville, TN, Kimberly J. Dean, State of Tenn., Office of the Atty. Gen., Civ. Rights and Claims Div., Nashville, TN, for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

JARVIS, Chief Judge.

This is an action for injunctive relief brought under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. § 1401, et seq., and the Fourteenth Amendment on behalf of a 15-year-old who was committed to the Mountain View Youth Development Center in Dandridge. The action sought immediate injunctive relief directing the defendant to place the minor plaintiff in an appropriate residential...

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