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WATERMAN v. MARQUETTE-ALGER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL D.

No. M89-10127 CA.

739 F.Supp. 361 (1990)

Kary WATERMAN, by Freda J. WATERMAN as her Next Friend; Mary Denney, by Norma J. Denney as her Next Friend; Erin Hill, by Joanne L. Hill as her Next Friend; Christopher Waters, by Patricia S. Waters as his Next Friend; David Vahama, by Susan M. Vahama as his Next Friend; Jeffrey Peters, by Beverly Peters as his Next Friend, Plaintiffs, v. The MARQUETTE-ALGER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT; Louis Myefski, Superintendent of the Marquette-Alger Intermediate School District; June Schaefer, Director of Special Education for the Marquette-Alger Intermediate School District; Jeffrey Miller, Supervisor for Classroom Programs/Pre-school Marquette-Alger Intermediate School District; Linda Dompierre, Teacher in the Marquette-Alger Intermediate School District; and Matthew Fields, Teacher in the Marquette-Alger Intermediate School District, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Michigan, N.D.

May 22, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Peterson, Steward, Peterson, Sheridan and Nancarrow, Ishpeming, Mich., Stewart R. Hakola, Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service, Marquette, Mich., for plaintiffs.

Michael B. Farrell, Thrun, Maatsch & Nordberg, P.C., Lansing, Mich., for Marquette-Alger Intermediate School Dist., Louis Myefski, June Schaefer and Jeffrey Miller.

Keith E. Swanson, Marquette, Mich., for Linda Dompierre and Matthew Fields.

W. John Stenton, Ronald D. Keefe, Marquette, Mich., for Alger-Marquette Intermediate School Dist., Louis Myefski, June Schaefer and Jeffery Miller.

OPINION

HILLMAN, Chief Judge.

This case involves disturbing allegations of excessive and abusive discipline of mentally impaired children at the Pineview School in Palmer, Michigan, during the 1986-87 and 1987-88 school years. Plaintiffs, appearing through their parents and next friends, are six Pineview special education students who allegedly suffered inappropriate discipline ranging from bodily humiliation and the withholding of food and medicine to repeated...

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