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SEWELL v. MONROE CITY SCHOOL BD.

No. 18-31086.

974 F.3d 577 (2020)

Jaylon SEWELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MONROE CITY SCHOOL BOARD; Brent Vidrine, Superintendent; Roosevelt Rankins, Dean; W R Berkley Corporation; Whitney Martin, Individually and as Former Principal of Neville High School, Incorrectly Named as Whitney Morton, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed September 10, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol Denise Powell-Lexing , Law Office of Carol D. Powell-Lexing, Monroe, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Leo Douglas Lawrence , Attorney, Lawrence Law Firm, L.L.C., Monroe, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Barksdale, Stewart, and Costa, Circuit Judges.

A motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim is not meant to resolve disputed facts or test the merits of a lawsuit. It instead must show that, even in the plaintiff's best-case scenario, the complaint does not state a plausible case for relief. In this case, the district court dismissed a high school student's claims...

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