DICKENS v. STATE OF MO., BY ASHCROFT

Patrick H. DICKENS, individually, and as natural father of deceased minor, John H. Dickens; Alice R. Dickens, individually, and as natural mother of deceased minor, John H. Dickens, Appellants, v. The STATE OF MISSOURI, by way of John ASHCROFT, Governor, William Webster, Attorney General, Wendell Bailey, Treasurer, John A. Pelzer, Commissioner of Office of Administration, all in their official capacities; The Missouri State Board of Education, by way of its board of directors, in their official capacities, Roseann Bentley, Dan L. Blackwell, Terry A. Bond, Thomas R. Davis, Susan D. Finke, Raymond F. McCallister, Jr., Cynthia B. Thompson and Roger L. Tolliver; The St. Louis Board of Education, by way of its board members, all in their official capacities, Richard K. Gaines, Thomas Bugel, Louis Fister, Shirley Kiel, John Mahoney, Marjorie Smith, Douglas Rush, Penelope Alcott, Dorothy Springer, Earl Nance, Jr., Eddie Davis, Joyce Thomas; Jerome B. Jones, Superintendent of the St. Louis Public Schools, in his official capacity; Mary Beth Purdy, individually and in her official capacity as Principal of Classical Jr. Academy, St. Louis Public School; Veronica Hughes, individually and in her official capacity as teacher at Classical Jr. Academy, St. Louis, Appellees.