Legal Opinion
Godin v. Schencks
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 22, 2010No. 09-2324PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
Pat Godin, the former principal of the Fort O’Brien Elementary School in Machiasport, Maine, brought suit against the Machiasport School Department Board of Directors (“Machiasport”) and School Union No. 134 in March 2009, alleging a violation of her due process rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. She also sued three individual school system employees who had separately stated in meetings with officials their views that Godin had acted abusively toward students at the school. Plaintiff brought state-law claims that these allegations were defamatory and led the school system to…
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