ARNOLD v. BOARD OF EDUC. OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALA.

No. 87-7617.

880 F.2d 305 (1989)

Helen H. ARNOLD, individually, and as Mother and next friend of John Doe, a minor unemancipated child, and, further as putative grandmother and next friend of that certain unborn child conceived by the said John Doe with one Jane Doe, and is more fully described herein, and Charles Davis, individually, and as Father and next friend of Jane Doe, a minor unemancipated child, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY, ALABAMA, Kay Rose, individually and in her official capacity as guidance counsellor for the said Board of Education of Escambia County, Alabama, Melvin Powell, individually and in his official capacity as an employee of the Board of Education of Escambia County, Alabama, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 10, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Huddleston, Lynn E. Quinley, Huddleston, Powell & Quinley, Daphne, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Susan Williams Reeves, Birmingham, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Before FAY and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and HENDERSON, Senior Circuit Judge.


FAY, Circuit Judge.

Two unemancipated minors and their parents brought this suit against the Escambia County School Board in Alabama and two school officials. The plaintiffs allege that the two school officials coerced the minor female into undergoing an abortion which violated certain rights protected by the United States Constitution and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs allege violations of their first, thirteenth and fourteenth amendment rights as well as...

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