STARBUCK v. WILLIAMSBURG JAMES CITY CTY. SCH. BD.

No. 20-2334.

28 F.4th 529 (2022)

Jonathan F. STARBUCK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WILLIAMSBURG JAMES CITY COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: March 15, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Benjamin Lerman , Jacob Larson , UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellant. Jeremy David Capps , HARMAN CLAYTOR CORRIGAN & WELLMAN, Glen Allen, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: J. Scott Ballenger , Gregory Eng , Third Year Law Student, Appellate Litigation Clinic, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellant. Blaire H. O'Brien , HARMAN CLAYTON CORRIGAN & WELLMAN, Glen Allen, Virginia, for Appellee.

Affirmed in part and reversed in part by published opinion. Judge Motz wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge Gregory and Judge Wynn joined.


Jonathan Starbuck brought this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against the Williamsburg James City County School Board (the "School Board") asserting that his public high school suspended him in violation of the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The district court held that Monell v. Department of Social...

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