Legal Opinion
Hasenfus v. LaJeunesse
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 30, 1999No. 98-2149PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the district court’s dismissal of a complaint filed by Alfred and Gale Hasenfus, on behalf of themselves and their minor child Jamie Hasenfus, arising out of Jamie’s attempted suicide at school. The complaint set forth claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against the Town of Winthrop, Maine, and others. The facts alleged in the complaint are as follows.
In the spring of 1996, Jamie was a 14-year-old student in the 8th grade of the Winthrop Middle School. On May 2 of that year, Jamie was reprimanded by her teacher, Carlo Kempton, for…
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