S.J. v. KANSAS CITY MISSOURI PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.

No. 01-3608.

294 F.3d 1025 (2002)

S.J., a minor, by T.R., her natural mother and next friend, Appellant, v. KANSAS CITY MISSOURI PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT; Teresia R. Gilyard, individually and as Principal of Martin Luther King Middle School in the Kansas City Missouri Public School District; William B. Evans, individually and as Counselor of Martin Luther King Middle School in the Kansas City Missouri Public School District; and Gwendolyn E. Squiers, individually and as Vice-Principal of Martin Luther King Middle School in the Kansas City Missouri Public School District, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: June 26, 2002.

As Corrected July 25, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick R. Miller, argued, Overland Park, KS, for appellant.

Hayley E. Hanson, argued (Maurice A. Watson, Kansas City, MO, on the brief), for appellee.

Before HANSEN, Chief Judge, MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge, and PRATT, District Judge.


MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

S.J., a middle school student, lived briefly with the family of Gregory Robertson, a minister who also volunteered in the Kansas City, Missouri, public schools. Mr. Robertson met S.J. while he was volunteering at her school, and he later met her mother and grandmother. At the grandmother's recommendation, S.J.'s mother made arrangements for S.J. to live with Mr. Robertson's family. Mr. Robertson was later convicted of sexually...

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