Kelson v. City Of Springfield

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• finding behavior shocks conscience where defendants left boy alone in school 3 bathroom with gun after he attempted to rob his teacher of spare change and then showed vice 4 principal suicide note
• discussing parental due process rights' roots in Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit precedent, and pointing to cases in which officials moved the child out of state, state terminated parental status for unfitness, and state agent killed child
• plaintiffs afforded opportunity to amend complaint on remand to allege existence of official policy or custom when Supreme Court decided case refining definition of official policy after plaintiffs filed original deficient complaint
• parents had a constitutionally protected liberty interest in the companionship and society 10 No. 04-3628 of their 14-year-old son and stated claim under § 1983 against school officials after their son committed suicide while at school

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