FIELDS v. PALMDALE SCHOOL DIST.

No. 03-56499.

427 F.3d 1197 (2005)

James FIELDS; Tammany Fields; Stuart Haberman; Robert Hoaglin; Kathie Hoaglin; Vanessa Shetler, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PALMDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT (PSD); Michael Geisser; Arland Atwood, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed November 2, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erik Gunderson, Esq., Steven C. Shonack, Esq., Gunderson, Schlichter, Shonack & Handel, LLP, Manhattan Beach, CA; Duane L. Bartsch, Esq., Law Offices of Duane Bartsch, Manhattan Beach, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Dennis J. Walsh, Esq., Douglas Lyon, Esq., Law Offices of Dennis J. Walsh, APC, Encino, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: LAY, REINHARDT, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.


REINHARDT, Circuit Judge.

When parents of schoolchildren in Palmdale, California learned from their sons and daughters that they had been questioned in their public elementary school about sexual topics such as the frequency of "thinking about having sex" and "thinking about touching other peoples' private parts," some of them exercised their constitutional right to take their grievance to the courts. The questioning was...

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