United States Sixth Circuit

The district court appropriately denied the state of Tennessee's motion to dismiss an action brought by disabled persons seeking to vindicate their purported due process right of access to Tennessee courts, as a factual record has yet to be developed. (Amended opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/10/2003
• Published 01/10/2003

Judges

• Before MARTIN, Chief Circuit Judge;  SUHRHEINRICH and SILER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mary M. Collier (briefed), S. Elizabeth Martin (briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Civil Litigation & Staff Services Div., Nashville, TN, for Appellant., Sarah E. Harrington (briefed), Seth M. Galanter, United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, D.C., for Intervenor.


• For Appellees:
  
• William J. Brown (briefed), William J. Brown & Associates, Cleveland, TN, for Appellees.