HASENFUS v. LaJEUNESSE

No. 98-2149.

175 F.3d 68 (1999)

Alfred HASENFUS and Gale Hasenfus, Individually and o/b/o Jamie Hasenfus, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. L. Roger LaJEUNESSE, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 29, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tracie L. Adamson with whom Susan V. Wallace, Sumner H. Lipman, Robert J. Stolt, and Lipman & Katz, P.A. were on brief for appellants.

Deirdre M. Smith with whom Melissa A. Hewey and Drummond Woodsum & MacMahon were on brief for appellees L. Roger LaJeunesse, Paul Knowles, Carlo Kempton and Winthrop Board of Education.

Edward R. Benjamin, Jr. with whom Thompson & Bowie was on brief for appellee Town of Winthrop.

Before SELYA, BOUDIN and STAHL, Circuit Judges.


BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the district court's dismissal of a complaint filed by Alfred and Gale Hasenfus, on behalf of themselves and their minor child Jamie Hasenfus, arising out of Jamie's attempted suicide at school. The complaint set forth claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against the Town of Winthrop, Maine, and others. The facts alleged in the complaint are as follows.

In the spring of 1996, Jamie was a 14-year-old...

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