Legal Opinion

Burden v. Wilkes-Barre Area School District

District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania

Decided February 11, 1998No. 3:97-cv-01224Published

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM

NEALON, District Judge.

In this civil rights action whereby plaintiff alleges violations of 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985(3), and seeks costs and attorney’s fees under 1986 and 1988, Defendant Wilkes-Barre Area School District filed a Motion to Dismiss pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) and 12(b)(6) on October 23, 1997, and a brief in support was submitted on November 3, 1997. Plaintiff filed a brief in opposition on November 20, 1997, to which defendant replied on December 4, 1997. The Motion is ripe for determination and, for the following reasons, will be granted.

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2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Conley v. GibsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
  2. Pembaur v. City of CincinnatiSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  3. DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social ServicesSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  4. Cruz v. BetoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  5. No. 94-3025Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1995

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