Melissa Hearring v. Karen Sliwowski

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

This dispute began in 2009 when a first-grader in the Nashville public schools complained to a teacher that her genitals hurt. The teacher sent .the child to a school nurse who visually inspected the girl. Perhaps understandably, that did not make the girl’s mother happy, particularly since the nurse did not seek her consent before the examination. Less understandably, the examination led to a half-dozen years of litigation.

The mother filed a money-damages action against the nurse and the school district for conducting a search in violation of her child’s Fourth…