SEAMONS v. SNOW

No. 94-4236.

84 F.3d 1226 (1996)

Sherwin SEAMONS, Jane Seamons, individually, and as natural parents of Brian Seamons, a minor, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Douglas SNOW, individually and in his capacity as the Coach at Sky View High School, and agent of Sky View High School and the Cache County School District; Myron Benson, individually, and as Principal of Sky View High School, and agent of Sky View High School and the Cache County School District; Sky View High School; the Cache County School District, Defendants-Appellees, Now Legal Defense and Education Fund; American Civil Liberties Union Women's Rights Project; Equal Rights Advocates; National Women's Law Center; Women's Legal Defense Fund, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

May 8, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Wallace of Hanson, Epperson & Smith, P.C., Salt Lake City, Utah (David S. Doty, North Salt Lake, Utah, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Carol Clawson, Office of the Attorney General, Salt Lake City, Utah (Jan C. Graham, Utah Attorney General, and Brent A. Burnett, Dan R. Larsen and Barbara E. Ochoa, Office of the Attorney General, on the briefs), for Defendants-Appellees.

Julie Goldscheid, New York City, Deborah A. Ellis, Brooklyn, NY and Yolanda S. Wu, Boston, MA, of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, on the brief for amici curiae.

Before EBEL and McKAY, Circuit Judges, and COOK, Senior District Judge.


EBEL, Circuit Judge.

On October 11, 1993, Plaintiff-Appellant Brian Seamons was tied unclothed to a horizontal towel bar with athletic tape by his Sky View High School football teammates in the boys' locker room. Brian Seamons and his parents, Sherwin and Jane Seamons, filed the instant action in the United States District Court for the District of Utah against Defendants-Appellees Douglas Snow (the football team coach), Myron Benson (the principal), and Lynn Nelson...

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