Legal Opinion
Lowry Ex Rel. Crow v. Watson Chapel School District
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 2, 2008No. 07-3437, 08-1139PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
Chris Lowry, Colton Dougan, and Micheál Joseph (collectively “plaintiffs”), 2 students in the Watson Chapel School District (“school district”) during the events in question, brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that the school district, the school district’s superintendent, the principal of Watson Chapel Junior High, and the school district’s school board members (collectively referred to as “defendants”) 3 violated plaintiffs’ rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. At the beginning of the trial, the district court 4 held that plaintiffs had…
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