U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Thomas Ciampa v. Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission
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- Type
- Opinion
- Author
- Frank Morey Coffin
- Filed
- Sept. 28, 1983
- Case
- Thomas Ciampa v. Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission
- Case status
- Decided
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COFFIN, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff Thomas Ciampa appeals the dismissal of his claims for injunctive, declaratory, and monetary relief against the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (“MRC” or “Commission”) and its present commissioner, Elmer C. Bartels. Ciampa alleged that defendants violated his rights under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and under the nondiscrimination provision of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (RHA), 29 U.S.C. § 794 . 1 The district court found that plaintiff, an emotionally and educationally handicapped thirty-four year old man, had been deprived of appropriate educational services in his youth, misdiagnosed, and subsequently abandoned by his family to an institution for many years. Defendant MRC has certified plaintiff as eligible for its services since 1971 and has provided him with a variety of services. Plaintiff has participated in several pre-vocational education programs that have focused mainly on basic reading skills. In this suit, plaintiff challenges the substantive and procedural adequacy of MRC’s provision of rehabilitative services during the past ten years. “No otherwise qualified handicapped individual in th…
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