Legal Opinion
Bobby Joe Lewellen v. The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee and the Metropolitan Board of Public Education
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 12, 1994No. 93-5061PublishedCited by 221 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.
This is a civil rights case brought by a workman who was accidentally injured on a school construction project. Contending that the accident was a result of intentional or grossly negligent acts and omissions on the part of the defendant school board, and characterizing the board’s conduct as “reckless and/or undertaken with deliberate indifference to plaintiffs personal safety,” the plaintiff brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the board and the metropolitan government of which the board is an agency. The plaintiffs theory was that the defendants had…
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