Legal Opinion
Teresa Garcia, a Minor, by Her Next Friends Max and Sandra Garcia v. Theresa Miera, J.D. Sanchez, Edward Leyba, Judi Mestas, and Felix Duran
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided April 28, 1987No. 85-1641PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOGAN, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal we review a district court’s grant of summary judgment, finding that school officials involved in two incidents of corporal punishment were insulated from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by qualified immunity.
Teresa Garcia, an elementary school pupil in New Mexico, by her parents and next friends, Max and Sandra Garcia, sued the defendants in their individual capacities for denying her substantive due process in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 because of two beatings 1 suffered at their hands. After considerable discovery, the defendants filed a motion for…
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