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SPANN FOR SPANN v. TYLER INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST.

No. 88-2871.

876 F.2d 437 (1989)

Janet SPANN, as Next Friend for Jason Burrow SPANN, a Minor, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. TYLER INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 29, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Hardy, Amy B. Drott, Hardy & Atherton, Tyler, Tex., for defendant-appellant.

T.J. Baynham, Jr., Bill Frizzell, Tyler, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before BROWN, WILLIAMS and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

Janet Spann, as next friend of Jason Burrow Spann, brought this section 1983 suit against the Tyler, Texas, Independent School District for the sexual abuse suffered by Jason from a school bus driver, Dalton Glen Jones. Holding that the abuses did not occur as a result of any officially sanctioned policy of the school district, we reverse.

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