DOE v. CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENN.

No. 95-5050.

103 F.3d 495 (1996)

Jane DOE and Janet Doe, Individually, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE, by and through the CLAIBORNE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION; and Dennis L. Peters; Roy L. Norris; Charles Randall Burchette; Bobby Williams; Dr. Roy Ellis, Jr.; J.P. Barnard; Lynn S. Barnard; in their individual and official capacities; and Sam Widener; Don Dobbs, and James Leonard Bundren, in their official capacities only, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided December 26, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don C. Stansberry, Jr., Michael B. Kinnard, P. Edward Pratt (argued and briefed), Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell, Knoxville, TN, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

James D. Estep, III, Estep & Estep, Tazewell, TN, Donald D. Howell (argued and briefed), Frantz, McConnell & Seymour, Knoxville, TN, for Claiborne County, Tenn.

Frank Q. Vettori (briefed), O'Neil, Parker & Williamson, Pamela L. Reeves (argued and briefed), Watson, Hollow & Reeves, Knoxville, TN, for Claiborne County Bd. of Educ.

Pamela L. Reeves, Watson, Hollow & Reeves, Knoxville, TN, for Dennis L. Peters, Don Dobbs, Roy Norris.

Frank Q. Vettori, O'Neil, Parker & Williamson, Knoxville, TN, for Sam Widener, Bobby Williams, J.P. Barnard, Randy Burchette.

Frank Q. Vettori, O'Neil, Parker & Williamson, William F. Alley, Jr. (briefed), Hodges, Doughty & Carson, Knoxville, TN, for Jeffrey S. Davis, Roy Ellis, Jr., Dr.

Elizabeth Adair Townsend (briefed), Baker, McReynolds, Byrne, Brackett, O'Kane & Shea, Knoxville, TN, for James L. Bundren, Lynn S. Barnard.

Before KRUPANSKY, RYAN, and NORRIS, Circuit Judges.


RYAN, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which KRUPANSKY, J., joined.

NORRIS, J. (p. 516), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.

RYAN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, Jane Doe, brought this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Claiborne County, Tennessee, the Claiborne County Board of Education, and several School Board members and school administrators in both their individual and official capacities...

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