SLADE v. BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS OF MILWAUKEE

No. 12-2425.

702 F.3d 1027 (2012)

Ronald SLADE, individually and as administrator of the estate of Kamonie Slade; and Charama Slade, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS OF the CITY OF MILWAUKEE, et al., Defendants, and Maribeth Gosz and Linda Estes, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 27, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Jaskulski (argued), Attorney, Habush, Habush & Rottier S.C., Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Jan A. Smokowicz (argued), Attorney, Milwaukee City Attorney's Office, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before POSNER, WOOD, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs — the estate of a decedent, Kamonie Slade, and his parents — brought suit against administrators of the Wisconsin public school that the boy was attending at the time of his death from drowning at a class outing. The suit is based on 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and claims that the defendants deprived Kamonie of his life in violation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The district judge granted summary...

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