DOE v. ST. FRANCIS SCHOOL DIST.

No. 12-1039.

694 F.3d 869 (2012)

N.R. DOE, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ST. FRANCIS SCHOOL DISTRICT, Defendant-Appellee, Kelly Sweet, Defendant, and Community Insurance Corporation, Intervening Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 10, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Ranney, III (argued), Attorney, Dewitt Ross & Stevens S.C., Madison, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Lori M. Lubinsky (argued), Attorney, Axley Brynelson , Madison, WI, for Defendant-Appellee.

Jonathan M. Ray , Attorney, Emile Banks & Associates, LLC, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendant.

Kelly Sweet, Watertown, WI, pro se.

Michele M. Ford , Attorney, Crivello Carlson, S.C., Milwaukee, WI, for Intervening Defendant-Appellee.

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and BAUER and POSNER, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This suit, by a 14-year-old eighth grader and his parents (whom we can ignore, and so we refer to the boy as the plaintiff), seeks to impose liability on the school district for sexual abuse by a 26-year-old female teacher, Kelly Sweet, no longer employed by the school. The plaintiff is of course not named "N.R. Doe" but is being permitted to litigate pseudonymously.

The suit alleges that the failure of the public school district (named...

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