· 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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