Legal Opinion
Ronald Slade v. Board of School Dir
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 27, 2012No. 12-2425PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 judgment for the defendants and having done so relinquished jurisdiction over the plaintiffs’ supplemental state law tort claims and dismissed the…
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