United States Sixth Circuit

In a section 1983 Fourteenth Amendment action filed by two community schools against public officials concerning a denial of state educational funding, grant of defendants' motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim is affirmed where the district court did not err in finding that community schools, as political subdivisions, were barred from invoking the protections of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/18/2008
• Published 04/18/2008

Judges

• Before: KEITH, CLAY, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Albin Bauer II, Eastman & Smith, Toledo, Ohio, for Appellants.  Reid T. Caryer, Office of the Ohio Attorney General, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Albin Bauer II, Eastman & Smith, Toledo, Ohio, for Appellants.  Reid T. Caryer, Office of the Ohio Attorney General, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellees.