Legal Opinion
Nix v. Franklin County School District
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 18, 2002No. 02-11437PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POLLAK, District Judge:
In this civil-rights case, this court is asked to define the contours between harms best left to the province of traditional tort law and those harms that rise to the level of constitutional violations. Appellants H.L. and Arlene Nix, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, brought a civil-rights action against the appellees seeking damages for the death of the Nixes’ son, Jeremiah. Finding that the Nixes failed to show that the appellees’ conduct violated a right secured by federal law, the District Court granted the appellees’ motion for summary judgment as to all of the Nixes’…
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