JEFFERSON v. YSLETA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST.

No. 86-1097.

817 F.2d 303 (1987)

Dwight and Karen JEFFERSON, on their own Behalf and on Behalf of their minor daughter, Jardine Jefferson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The YSLETA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, Defendant, Mr. Dick Gore and Ms. Cynthia Goodman, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 20, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward W. Dunbar, Mark Berry, El Paso, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

Thomas A. Spieczny, El Paso, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before GEE, POLITZ, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

In this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case the district court denied defendants' Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss based on the plaintiffs' failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted and the defendants' plea of qualified immunity. Because it poses solely a question of law, the ruling on qualified immunity is appealable, Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511, 105 S.Ct. 2806, 86 L.Ed.2d 411 (1986...

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