DOE v. TAYLOR INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST.

No. 90-8431.

975 F.2d 137 (1992)

Jane DOE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TAYLOR INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Defendants, and Mike Caplinger and Eddy Lankford, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 2, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric W. Schulze and Laurie Maniotis Rodriguez Hairston, Walsh, Anderson, Underwood & Schulze, P.C., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

Gwendolyn H. Gregory, Deputy Gen. Counsel and August W. Steinhilber, Nat. School Boards Ass'n, Alexandria, Va., for amicus, Nat. School Boards Ass'n.

Brian D. East, Ellen Hahn, Daves, Hahn & Levy and Vella M. Fink and B. Craig Deats, Van Os, Deats, Robinett & Owen, P.C., Austin, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GOLDBERG, HIGGINBOTHAM, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.


GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

You would think it obvious that sexual molestation, when visited upon one of our schoolchildren by her public schoolteacher, would undoubtedly violate her constitutional right to be free from intrusions into bodily integrity. You would also think it indisputable that a school superintendent and a school principal, once aware that such reprehensible conduct was taking place on their campus, would have not only a moral duty, but also a legal...

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