Betz v. Satteson

MEMORANDUM

Matthew W. Brann, United States District Judge

Some might say it was a child’s scooter, like a marble dropped into a Rube Goldberg machine, which set the chain-reaction events of this case into motion. The more cynical among us, however, would label that -a puerile retelling of events.- To those cynics, the true catalyst ’ of misfortune was not an innocent toy, but instead was flagrant insubordination and unapologetic disrespect. Unfortunately for Plaintiffs, the applicable law has as its foundation precisely that skeptical view.

While a seventh grader at Shikellamy Middle School in…