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· 5/26/1987

Margaret Lopez, Individually and as Next Friend of John Adam Lopez, Plaintiff v. Houston Independent School District

Citations

  • 817 F.2d 351
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 6662
  • 39 Educ. L. Rep. 21

How courts have described this case

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  • finding that bus driver may be liable for acting with \callous indifference\ in failing to supervise students properly
  • finding a Texas independent school district was “sufficiently distinct from the state to be outside the [E]leventh [A]mendment”
  • finding a Texas independent school district was “sufficiently distinct from the state to be outside the [E]leventh [A]mendment”
  • there was no evidence to support allegation that supervisors were grossly negligent or deliberately indifferent to student’s constitutional rights for failing to train properly bus drivers without evidence of a “widespread problem mandating an official response”

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Judges: Politz, Jolly, Higginbotham

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