Barbara Wyatt v. Rhonda Fletcher
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
As next-friend of her minor daughter “S.W.”, Barbara Wyatt brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against high school softball coaches Rhonda Fletcher and Cassandra Newell. Wyatt alleges the coaches disclosed S.W.’s sexual orientation during a disciplinary meeting with S.W.’s mother, primarily claiming the disclosure to the mother constituted a Fourteenth Amendment invasion of S.W.’s privacy. Wyatt also alleged a Fourth Amendment claim based on a disciplinary confrontation in a locked locker room. On the coaches’ motion for summary judgment, the district court…
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